honouring european unity. he has landed in france, off the plane and into a car and he is heading off for dinner with emmanuel macron and we are told he will be talking about the humanitarian support that france can offer and reaffirming the military support that president macron has already agreed to. we heard earlier he gave a speech in aachen in germany where he received this prize pot european union, where he called germany a true friend in the fight against russia. he was also in italy before that where he met prime minister giorgia meloni and she also said italy would support ukraine as long as necessary and he also got to meet the pope whilst in italy as well, who said he was praying for ukraine. a lot of promises for support in the last few days from germany and italy and this is exactly what president zelensky once, he wants to show russia that the international support he has been enjoying for the last few days is continuing and there is no sign of it waning ahead o
promised germany would support ukraine for as long as necessary and would also back its attempt to join the european union under president zelensky gave a speech and he said that 2023 was the year at the aggressor s defeat could be made irreversible. he also thanked the chancellor for a irreversible. he also thanked the chancellorfor a new irreversible. he also thanked the chancellor for a new package of military aid which was worse, as i said, around $3 billion. that was his visit to germany and before that he was in italy, meeting prime minister giorgia meloni who pledged tell in support, talked about doing so for as long as necessary but also he met the pope who said that ukraine was in his prayers. these are the pictures from a little earlier, about 15 minutes ago, this is him arriving at the airport at an airbase around eight miles south west of paris. presumably it wouldn t have taken them long to get to the elysee palace where we have
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they are much better than they were say. they seem to be back where they should have been at the beginning but at the beginning they were pretty rocky, if you remember, because president macron s perceived ambivalence for the need for an outright ukrainian victories and certain statements in which he appeared to suggest that russian concerns needed to be taken into account in any final settlement or in negotiations to end the conflict and so on. various interpretations were put on all of that, some people criticising his willingness to keep talking to vladimir putin, others are saying it was at the time not an entirely stupid thing to do with a view to keeping all channels open. whatever the case, i think everyone agrees now that is history. the situation has changed and the question now of french support for a ukrainian victory, and french military support has been increasing