German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky walk in the garden in the backyard of the Chancellery in Berlin on April 14, 2026 (Photo by Odd Andersen\/ AFP) <\/p>\n
Berlin, Germany: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday visited Germany which is increasingly seeking to tap Ukraine’s battlefield expertise.<\/p>\n
Zelensky was to hold talks with Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin, expected to focus in part on cooperation in drone production.<\/p>\n
Defence ministers allied to Kyiv and NATO chief Mark Rutte were to meet on Wednesday in Berlin as part of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group.<\/p>\n
Germany has become Ukraine’s biggest backer in the war with Russia, now in its fifth year, as the United States has reduced its support.<\/p>\n
The Ukrainian army now has strong battlefield experience in military drones, essential weapons due to their relatively low cost and increasing effectiveness and range.<\/p>\n
The Zelensky-Merz meeting comes as hopes are rising that the European Union can soon provide Ukraine with a 90 billion euro ($105 billion) loan agreed in December.<\/p>\n
German government spokesman Stefan Kornelius on Monday said he hoped the aid would be made available to Ukraine “very quickly”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky walk in the garden in the backyard of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,1488,4772],"class_list":{"0":"post-4663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-qatar","10":"tag-the-peninsula"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}