Recap 2023



German economy and climate minister Habeck travels to Ukraine and meets with Ukrainian President Selenskyj

German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck boards an air force plane at the military section of Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER) to fly to Poland, from where he will continue by train to Ukraine.
German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck talks to members of a business delegation and journalists on a special train travelling from Przemysl in Poland to Kiev.
German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck arrives at the railway station in Kiev.
German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck arrives at the railway station in Kiev.
View of Kiev in the morning.
A transformer destroyed by Russian attacks in one of the substations of “Ukrenergo”, which supplies one of the most densely populated areas of Ukraine with energy.
German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck (r) and Wolodymyr Selenskyj, President of Ukraine, greet each other before a meeting with witnesses to alleged war crimes in the village of Yahidne, around 140 kilometres north-east of Kiev.
Wolodymyr Selenskyj, President of Ukraine, at the village of Yahidne, around 140 kilometres north-east of Kiev.
Wolodymyr Selenskyj, President of Ukraine, is seen in a school basement in the village of Yahidne in the Chernihiv region. The village was conquered by Russian troops at the beginning of March 2022. The remaining 350 inhabitants were forcibly held in the basement of the local school as human shield. Ten people died as a result of the inhumane living conditions. Over a dozen other villagers are said to have been murdered by the Russian occupiers.
German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck (r) and Wolodymyr Selenskyj, President of Ukraine, stand in front of a wall with pictures of hostages, who were detained in a school basement in the village of Yahidne.
German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck (C) comforts a witness next to Wolodymyr Selenskyj (l), President of Ukraine.
Wolodymyr Selenskyj, President of Ukraine, is seen in a school basement where civilians were forcibly kept as human shield by Russian occupiers.
Wolodymyr Selenskyj, President of Ukraine, is seen in a school basement where civilians were forcibly kept as human shield by Russian occupiers.
Wolodymyr Selenskyj, President of Ukraine, greets a witness.
A drawing on the wall in the school basement where Russian occupiers also held children.
German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck (l) and Wolodymyr Selenskyj (r), President of Ukraine, leave the village of Yahidne to visit a bridge being reconstructed.
German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck (l) and Wolodymyr Selenskyj (r), President of Ukraine, visit the reconstruction of a destroyed bridge near the village of Jahidne in the north of Ukraine.
A child walks across the central square in the small town of Slavutych. Slavutych was built at the end of the 1980s after the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) just 45 kilometres to the east. The town served as a new home for the workers of the nuclear power plant, which remained active until 2000, after the old power plant town of Prypyat was evacuated. The town, with a population of around 25,000 was only briefly occupied by Russian troops at the end of March 2022. The mayor of Slavutych, Yuri Fomichov, was arrested by the Russian occupying forces during this time.
German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck (C) walks past a sea of flags alongside Matthias Berninger (left), Head of Public Affairs and Sustainability at Bayer AG, Siegfried Russwurm (2nd from right), President of the Federation of German Industries, and Anka Feldhusen (right), Germany’s Ambassador to Ukraine, during a walk across Kiev’s Maidan.
A sea of flags is seen on the Maidan
German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck visits Kiev’s Maidan with Anka Feldhusen, Germany’s ambassador to Ukraine visiting the Maidan.
German economy and climate minister Robert Habeck is seen walking across the Maidan in Kiev next to Siegfried Russwurm (l), President of the Federation of German Industries, behind anti-tank barriers.
“Monument to Dante Alighieri” in Kiev, which is protected by sandbags.
Children climb on a destroyed Russian tank in Kiev as German Economics Minister Habeck is visiting Ukraine with a business delegation.
„Vielen Dank“ (Thank you very much) is written on the display board on the track shortly before the departure of Federal Minister Habeck’s special train from Kiev to Poland.
Ammunition is loaded at Rzeszow-Jasionka airport in Poland.

German Chancellor Scholz receives Ukrainian President Selenskyj

Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj (l) is received by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with military honors at the chancellery in Berlin.
Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj (l) is received by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with military honors at the chancellery in Berlin.
Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj (l) is received by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with military honors at the chancellery in Berlin.
Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj (l) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz shake hands at a press conference in the chancellery.
Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj (l) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attend a press conference in the chancellery.
Link to this article Posted on 31. December 2023