Kyiv (dpa-AFX) – Kiev’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko has called on Germany to continue to stand closely by Ukraine’s side in the war against Russia. “Please stay with us because we are also fighting for German values,” he said in an interview with ARD’s “Morgenmagazin”, which was recorded on Thursday afternoon and broadcast on Friday. The reason for the war is that Ukraine wants to be part of the European family.
Klitschko described that the current challenge in Kyiv is to supply the citizens with heat, electricity and water. The logistics collapsed. At the same time there are attacks and Russian snipers in the city. “A horror,” said Klitschko. He never thought that something like this could happen in his city.
His brother Wladimir Klitschko reported in the interview that you could hear bullets in Kyiv during the day, but it was really bad at night. “The war is mostly at night,” he said. Klitschko pointed out how close Kyiv is to Germany. “Here was the Champions League final (2018), where many Germans were there too.” The world must come together and stop cooperation with Russia, otherwise Ukraine will fare very badly./tam/DP/eas