Ukraine: in Kyiv, Friedrich Merz pledges €1.3 billion in aid as Russian drones strike a bridge
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RussiaMoscow sees Merz's visit to Kiev as an episode of German domestic politics: a chancellor with historically low ratings, facing an increasingly unfavourable public opinion and opposition to aid.
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AustraliaCanberra is particularly mindful of the challenge issued to Moscow: the Australian press describes a chancellor who refuses to be intimidated by drones, more than a numerical assessment of the aid.
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by domestic policy
the narrative puts the chancellor's popularity rating at the forefront of the visit.
Relying on opposition voices
the agency relays German political officials hostile to the chancellor.
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Australiaof the challenge
the narrative puts the refusal to be intimidated and the call to Putin at the forefront, before the content of the aid.
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the Russian military justification for the strike on the bridge appears alongside Ukrainian and German statements.