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Foreign Min To Hold Presser w/Ukrainian Counterpart In Kyiv

GERMANY

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is set to hold a press conference with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in the coming minutes. Comes as Baerbock visits Ukraine amidst heightened tensions between Kyiv and Moscow.

  • The new German gov't sits in a difficult position. Aligned with NATO and the West, Berlin has warned Moscow against military incursions into Ukraine. However, the German gov't has remained supportive of the Nord Stream II gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, brushing off criticism of the pipeline as a risk to Ukrainian security from Kyiv as well as a number of Western gov'ts.
  • There is also division within the German gov't on NSII, with Chancellor Scholz's Social Democrats supporting the pipeline, but the junior Greens (where Baerbock hails from) opposing the pipeline due to its environmental impact.

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