German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Monday that Ukraine needs support to ensure its very survival as Kyiv heads into its third winter of war exacerbated by North Korean weapons aid and massive Russian airstrikes on civilian infrastructure.
The German foreign minister, who was last in Ukraine in May, is due to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and her Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha, while in the capital.
Baerbock said Germany recently extended its emergency energy aid to Ukraine by an extra 170 million euros ($185.27 million) in response to bombed-out heating plants and power lines.