German Minister of State for Tradition Claudia Roth arrived within the southwestern Ukrainian port metropolis of Odesa on Monday for a two-day go to.
Roth visited on the invitation of her Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksandr Tkachenko. She is the primary German authorities official to go to the town.
“We wish to present how tradition is below assault,” Roth mentioned. Odesa has been the goal of Russian shelling.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy additionally sought to focus on assaults on cultural facilities within the metropolis over the weekend, saying that artillery hearth destroyed a monastery within the metropolis. He referred to as the strike “proof” that Russia had no place inside UNESCO, the UN’s cultural company.
Roth is scheduled to satisfy Odesa regional governor Maksym Marchenko and mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov.
She additionally plans to go to among the metropolis’s cultural establishments, such because the Odesa Movie Studio and the Philharmonic Theater.
Claudia Roth holds up a stamp exhibiting a Ukrainian soldier gesturing to Russia’s Black Sea fleet
Which different German officers have visited Ukraine?
German Overseas Minister Annalena Baerbock grew to become the primary Cupboard member to go to Ukraine on Could 10. She visited Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the close by city of Bucha, which Ukraine alleges was the location of Russian conflict crimes in opposition to civilians.
Towards the tip of Could, Growth Minister Svenja Schulze additionally visited Kyiv and urged Russia to permit the supply of tens of hundreds of tons of grain caught in Ukrainian ports.
Friedrich Merz, head of the conservative opposition bloc, visited Kyiv early in June. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats decried this as a PR stunt forward of key state elections.
Not like many European leaders, Scholz himself is but to go to Ukraine.
dpa contributed to this report
Edited by: Rob Turner