'Because it is the speed that life depends on': Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy started off the three-day forum with a message of urgency, telling delegates in a virtual address on Friday that 'we need to hurry up.'
— As dozens of world leaders descended on Germany this weekend for the annual Munich Security Conference, declarations of support for Ukraine were nearly ubiquitous — as were acknowledgments that help and weapons are arriving too slowly.
"We will do whatever Germany can do to make this decision easier for our partners, for example, by training Ukrainian soldiers here in Germany or providing support with supplies and logistics," Scholz said. He also said Germany would permanently increase its defense spending to 2% of GDP, a level long called the"minimum" by NATO leaders.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks via video link to the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 17, 2023, in Munich, Germany.In remarks on Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron said the coming months would be decisive for the war in Ukraine, and urged the West to"intensify" its support while also preparing for"prolonged conflict."
"There will be more dark days in Ukraine. The daily agony of war will persist," she said."But if [Russian President Vladimir] Putin thinks he can wait us out, he is badly mistaken. Time is not on his side." Russia had committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine, vowing that Russian soldiers who perpetrated crimes and their superiors would be"held to account."
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