Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany Annalena Baerbock on 10 May arrived in Ukraine. She's visiting Bucha – a town in the Kyiv region that suffered destruction by russian occupiers.
The AFP agency reported the visit, calling it a "surprise trip". Afterward, the Kyiv Regional Military Administration's head Oleksandr Pavliuk confirmed the information about the visit.
#UPDATE German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock during a surprise trip to Ukraine on Tuesday visited Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv where Russian troops have been accused of killing civilians pic.twitter.com/dHBzwn1lH7
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"The European delegation inspected the bombing of the houses consequences in Irpin and Bucha. Annalena Baerbock even entered one of the destroyed buildings to evaluate the extent of the destruction. Besides, the delegation saw the place of the mass burial of civilians killed by the occupiers in Bucha," – the Kyiv RMA reported.
It's already the third visit of Germany's Federal Foreign Office head to Ukraine since the beginning of the year, but the first one since the full-scale invasion started. Baerbock had visited Kyiv for the last time before this on 7 February. Madam Minister didn't meet the Ukrainian president then, but she held talks with her counterpart Dmytro Kuleba.
On 8 May, the President of Germany's Bundestag Bärbel Bas visited Kyiv. This month the leader of the German party Christian Democratic Union Friedrich Merz visited Ukraine, too.