The Foreign Ministry has confirmed that the ministers have contacted their partners. The initiative was created together with France in response to President Zelensky's calls for help. Western intelligence services warned that Moscow was deliberately attacking Ukraine's energy infrastructure in order to paralyze the country.
Russia is currently bombing Ukraine almost every day with missiles or attacking from the air with attack drones. Ukraine urgently needs more weapons to defend against air attacks - ideally modern systems such as Patriot or Iris-T, the initiative says. "We all have something to contribute, perhaps more than we previously thought possible," the letter quotes the letter from the foreign minister and the defense minister. "We must now act quickly together and stop the brutal and ruthless air strikes, especially on centers like Odessa or Kharkiv," Pistorius told the German press on April 17, according to a report in Spiegel. The German government also seems to see it that way, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) saying: "The Russian war of aggression is being carried out with great brutality."