In Kiev, Ukrainian President Zelenskyj thanks the Vice Chancellor for German help. The focus is on anti-aircraft defense.
Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda said that the example of the joint defense against the Iranian attack on Israel must be transferred to Ukraine's air defense system. "All over the world we have to scrape together the air defense we have," said the Green politician in the ZDF "heute-journal." "A European air defense coalition could be a game changer,' said Vilnius's President. The NATO-Ukraine Council is meeting today at Kiev's request. The conference on the reconstruction of Ukraine planned for June in Berlin will focus primarily on bilateral projects in the defense and energy industries. It is scheduled to take place in the German city of Berlin on June 14-15. It will be the first time that the conference has been held in Germany since the end of the Second World War.