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Germany's Merz visits Kyiv, announces €1.3bn support package and 15 bilateral agreements
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Kyiv on 4 October on an unannounced visit, where he and President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a new German support package for Ukraine worth more than €1.3 billion. The two leaders signed 15 bilateral agreements with a combined value of more than €8.5 billion, covering military, energy and drone production cooperation, and Merz used the visit to call on Vladimir Putin to stop the war.