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Under Pressure, Zelenskiy In Germany To Rally Ukraine's Allies


German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (right) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy shake hands at a press conference in Berlin in February.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (right) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy shake hands at a press conference in Berlin in February.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on September 6 will visit Germany, where Ukraine's military backers are meeting days after one of the deadliest strikes of the war and as Russian forces make battlefield gains. Zelenskiy and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will hold one-on-one talks in Frankfurt, according to a German government spokesman, who did not give further details about the Ukrainian leader's program. But German news outlet Der Spiegel reported that Zelenskiy will also attend the gathering of Kyiv's backers, which includes the United States, at the U.S. Ramstein Air Base. The meeting at the base southwest of Frankfurt is being hosted by U.S. defense chief Lloyd Austin.

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