{"id":1240479,"date":"2025-06-12T09:24:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/german-defense-minister-pistorius-arrives-in-kyiv-for-a-visit\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T09:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:24:51","slug":"german-defense-minister-pistorius-arrives-in-kyiv-for-a-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/german-defense-minister-pistorius-arrives-in-kyiv-for-a-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"German Defense Minister Pistorius arrives in Kyiv for a visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Thursday, June 12, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius arrived in Kyiv for a visit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/ausland\/ukraine-boris-pistorius-zu-gespraechen-ueber-militaerhilfen-in-kyjiw-eingetroffen-a-ea61ae98-b413-4799-94e0-2cc4289f0e58\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> the German publication Spiegel.<\/p>\n<p> Pistorius arrived in the Ukrainian capital to discuss further military assistance to the country with Ukrainian government representatives.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We are doing everything possible to support Ukraine so that it can defend itself and find itself in a position where Russia is ready for serious negotiations,&#8221; the head of the defense department assured.<\/p>\n<p> Arriving in Kyiv, the German Defense Minister condemned the intensified Russian airstrikes on the country, which he described as &#8220;extremely brutal and threatening, with a large number of cruise missiles and drone attacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This is a clear signal from Moscow: there is currently no interest in a peaceful solution, instead the strikes continue with unwavering brutality and, above all, increasingly targeted at civilian areas of Ukraine,&#8221; Pistorius said at the train station in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius stated at a meeting of the Contact Group on Defense Issues in Ukraine that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/persha-dalekobiyna-zbroia-profinansovana-nimechchynoiu-nadiyde-do-zsu-vzhe-za-kilka-tyzhniv-pistorius\/\">the first long-range weapons financed by Germany will enter service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a few weeks.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> As reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiia-hotuietsia-do-napadu-na-krainy-nato-rozvidka-nimechchyny-maie-dokazy\/\">German intelligence has concrete evidence of the Kremlin&#8217;s preparations for potential aggression against NATO<\/a> . Thus, the aggressor country plans to test the effectiveness of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which guarantees mutual defense in the event of an attack on one of the Alliance member states.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, June 12, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius arrived in Kyiv for a visit. This is reported by the German publication Spiegel. Pistorius arrived in the Ukrainian capital to discuss further military assistance to the country with Ukrainian government representatives. &#8220;We are doing everything possible to support Ukraine so that it can defend itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1022051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1240479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1022051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}