German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (Olaf Scholz) supported the proposal to create a “European political community” put forward by French President Emmanuel Macron. “I want to say frankly that this is a very interesting proposal to solve the serious problems that we are facing,” Scholz said on Monday, May 9, at a joint press conference with Macron in Berlin.
At the same time, the German Chancellor stressed that the proposal of the French leader should not deter the European Union from admission of new membersin particular the Western Balkan states. “We are keeping our promises to join,” Scholz said. According to him, many countries have already taken far-reaching, bold decisions with a view to possible accession to the EU. “We must find a way not to disappoint this courage,” he said.
Speaking before his visit to Berlin at a meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the President of France expressed doubt that Ukraine’s accession to the European Union would take place quickly. He stated that this process can last for decades. Macron called for increased cooperation with Kyiv and proposed the creation of a “European political community” for Ukraine and other candidate countries. It “would open up a new space for political cooperation and security,” the president said.
Scholz: “Ukraine belongs to the European family”
Ukraine filed application for EU membership shortly after the Russian military invasion. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on May 9 that the EC would provide an official response to Ukraine’s bid in June. If Brussels recommends that Ukraine be granted candidate status and all 27 EU member states agree, negotiations on the country’s accession to the EU will begin.
“We agree that Ukraine belongs to the European family,” Scholz said. “We are working to continue to accompany her on her way to our common Europe,” he added.
Scholz and Macron called for concrete action for the sake of ceasefire in Ukraine. “We want to achieve a ceasefire, and as soon as possible,” Macron said after their meeting in Berlin. According to him, this is the only way to bring negotiations between Ukraine and Russia before a peace agreement, and in the future to achieve the withdrawal of Russian troops.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
97-year-old veteran of World War II Ivan Lizun from the village of Zolochiv, Kharkiv region, near his destroyed house. Further, in the photo chronicle of the war in Ukraine on May 9 – Mariupol and evacuees from this city, a strike on a school in Belogorivka, the first lady of the United States in Ukraine, a sapper dog received an award and other pictures. ATTENTION! Some of the photographs contain scenes of gore, violence and death.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
A destroyed house in the village of Malaya Rogan, Kharkiv region, one of the settlements just liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this region of Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
Ukrainian soldiers inspect the wreckage of a downed Russian helicopter in the Kharkiv region.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
The body of a killed Russian soldier near Kharkov.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
A resident of Mariupol in her apartment destroyed by artillery shelling. Most of Mariupol is under the control of Russian troops and pro-Russian separatists.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
Burnt trams in Mariupol. The unblocking of this city by military means is not yet possible due to the lack of heavy weapons. Vladimir Zelensky announced this at a press conference in Kyiv on May 8.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
Lights shine through the windows of evacuation buses for residents of Mariupol who arrived at a refugee center in the city of Zaporozhye on May 8.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
A resident of Mariupol in an evacuation bus in the city of Zaporozhye. Among those brought here in recent days were also civilians from the territory of the Azovstal plant.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
Ivan Andreev kisses his cat Leonardo. On May 8, more than 170 people arrived in Zaporozhye from Mariupol on ten buses. Two days earlier, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that about 500 civilians had been evacuated from the Azovstal plant.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
“The President’s order has been fulfilled: all women, children and elderly people have been evacuated from Azovstal,” Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk said at the end of last week.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
Rescue work after a Russian strike on a school in the village of Belogorovka, Luhansk region, in the building of which local residents were hiding from shelling. According to the Ukrainian authorities, on May 7, 60 people died here.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
At the end of last week, Chairman of the German Bundestag Berbel Bass visited Ukraine. The head of the German parliament laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Kyiv, met with President Volodymyr Zelensky, and also visited Bucha, where this photo was taken.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
Among the foreign politicians who visited Ukraine in recent days was also Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The head of the Canadian government, in particular, was invited to the awards ceremony for employees of the State Emergency Service (GSES) …
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
Among those awarded on this day was the dog sapper Patron, who received the medal “For Selfless Service” from the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. The cartridge helps to search for mines in the liberated territories, has already become a star of social networks and is a kind of talisman of the State Emergency Service.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
On May 8, Ukraine was visited by the first lady of the United States – the wife of President Joe Biden. Jill Biden arrived in Uzhgorod near the border with Slovakia, where she met with the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Olena Zelenskaya. The photo was taken at a school where refugees from the regions of Ukraine where hostilities were taking place were settled.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
The National Military History Museum of Ukraine has been replenished with new exhibits. Destroyed Russian military equipment and some individual fragments are exhibited near the building, in particular, the tail section of the downed aircraft.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
“Putler. The cauldron is warmed up! Inferno awaits you…” – an image and an inscription in Ukrainian on a tombstone in the middle of a highway near Kyiv.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
In the Kiev metro at the station “Khreshchatyk” on May 8, one could hear the performance of the lead vocalist of the rock band U2 Bono, who was also accompanied by another member of this group – Edge. During the concert, they were also joined by the frontman of the Ukrainian band “Antitelya” Taras Topolya, now a member of the territorial defense.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
Berlin was at the center of events around May 8 and 9 in Germany. You can read about it in the DW report “The day the war in Europe ended. As it was celebrated in Berlin.” However, this and the final frame of the photo chronicle were taken in Cologne, where actions were held with both Russian and Ukrainian flags.
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War in Ukraine – 09.05.2022
As a caption to this frame from Cologne, we will cite the words of Volodymyr Zelensky from an address dated May 9: “We are fighting for freedom for our children and therefore we will win. We will never forget what our ancestors did in World War II, in which more than eight million died Ukrainians. And very soon there will be two days of victory in Ukraine. And someone will not have a single one.”
Author: Nikolay Permyakov
