Joint Press Statement Following a Call between the President Joe Biden and the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Olaf Scholz - The White House

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke by telephone connected January 5, 2023 to speech views connected the ongoing warfare of aggression waged by Russia against Ukraine. They reiterated their enactment for Ukraine’s sovereignty and independence. They reaffirmed their unwavering solidarity with Ukraine and the Ukrainian radical successful the look of Russia’s aggression.

President Biden and Chancellor Scholz expressed their communal determination to proceed to supply the indispensable financial, humanitarian, subject and diplomatic enactment to Ukraine for arsenic agelong arsenic needed. To this end, the United States intends to proviso Ukraine with Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles, and Germany intends to supply Ukraine with Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicles. Both countries program to bid Ukrainian forces connected the respective systems.

In airy of Russia’s ongoing rocket and drone attacks against Ukraine’s captious infrastructure, President Biden and Chancellor Scholz affirmed their volition to further enactment Ukraine’s urgent request for aerial defence capabilities. In precocious December, the United States announced its donation of a Patriot aerial defence rocket artillery to Ukraine. Germany volition articulation the United States successful supplying an further Patriot aerial defence artillery to Ukraine.

President Biden and Chancellor Scholz expressed appreciation for the subject enactment provided by different Allies and partners to Ukraine, endorsed the ongoing coordination efforts of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, and welcomed further donations of aerial defence systems and combat vehicles.

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