German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrived in Ukraine on 10 January, Tagesspiegel has reported.
She is the first German minister to visit eastern Ukraine after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Baerbock paid a visit to Kharkiv.
"This city is emblematic of the absolute insanity of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine," Baerbock said upon her arrival.
The people in Ukraine should "know that they can rely on our solidarity and our support", she said. The support includes winter aid with generators, fuel and blankets, but "also further deliveries of weapons, which Ukraine needs to free its fellow citizens who are still suffering under the terror of Russian occupation", Baerbock explained. It is important to her "that we do not lose sight of Ukraine's place in our European family even in this winter of war", the minister added.
Baerbock was accompanied on the visit, which was initially kept secret for security reasons, by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Oleksiy Makeyev.