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French President Emmanuel Macron, center, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi travel on board a train bound to Kyiv after departing from Poland Thursday, June 16, 2022. The European leaders are expected to meet with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as they prepare for a key European Union leaders' summit in Brussels next week and a June 29-30 NATO summit in Madrid. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

French, German, Italian leaders visit Kyiv to show support

By John Leicester and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, takes part in the East German Economic Forum (OWF) in Bad Saarow, Germany, Monday, June 13, 2022. From June 12-14, 2022, personalities from Germany and abroad will meet at the forum for the 7th time. Energy supply security in times of crises and climate change, transformation and attracting skilled workers are key topics of the East German Economic Forum. (Patrick Pleul/dpa via AP)

Reduced Russian gas flow is political, German official says

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People walk beside the Stadtkirche, Town Church, in Wittenberg, Germany, Jan. 14, 2020. The church contains a so-called &quot;Judensau,&quot; or &quot;Jew pig,&quot; sculpture which is located about 4 meters, 13 feet, above the ground on a corner of the church. A German federal court will decide a Jewish man's bid to force the removal of a 700-year-old antisemitic statue from the church where Martin Luther once preached. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File)

German federal court rejects bid to remove antisemitic relic

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

People clean an area of a building damaged by an overnight missile strike in Sloviansk, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

Live updates | Much of key Ukraine city destroyed by attacks

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A regional train approaches the city of Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. From Wednesday, people in Germany can use a 9-euro ticket for public transport which is valid for a whole month. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Germans snap up inflation-busting public transit tickets

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

German Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck, right, and John Kerry, left, Special Envoy of the U.S. President for Climate, shake hands after they signed a declaration of intent to establish a German-American climate and energy partnership between the United States of America and Germany at the meeting of the G7 Ministers for Climate, Energy and Environment in Berlin, Germany, Monday, May. 27, 2022. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa/dpa via AP)

G-7 pledges put coal on notice, could boost climate aid

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, and Steffi Lemke , Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, open the meeting of the G7 Ministers for Climate, Energy and the Environment in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, May 26, 2022. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

Germany: G-7 nations can lead the way on ending coal use

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, center, walks with South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa after the official welcoming ceremony at the Union Building in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

German chancellor discusses Ukraine war in South Africa

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

Iryna Martsyniuk, 50, stands next to her house, heavily damaged after a Russian bombing in Velyka Kostromka village, Ukraine, Thursday, May 19, 2022. Martsyniuk and her three young children were at home when the attack occurred in the village, a few kilometres from the front lines, but they all survived unharmed. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Live updates | Zelenskyy: Russia should pay for destruction

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

German Finance Minister Christian Lindner, right, welcomes U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, front left, for a G7 Finance Ministers Meeting at the federal guest house Petersberg, near Bonn, Germany, Thursday, May 19, 2022. (Federico Gambarini/dpa via AP)

G-7 countries to provide $19.8 billion in aid to Ukraine

By Fatima Hussein and Geir Moulson - Associated Press

Melanie Joly, left, Foreign Minister of Canada, and Josep Borrell, right, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, talk after their bilateral meeting during the the summit of foreign ministers of the G7 Group of leading democratic economic powers at the Weissenhaus resort in Weissenhaeuser Strand, Germany, Saturday, May 14, 2022. (Marcus Brandt/Pool via AP)

G7 warn of Ukraine grain crisis, ask China not to aid Russia

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

A Shell chemical plant is illuminated in Wesseling, near Cologne, Germany, on April 6, 2022. Germany says its making progress on weaning itself off Russian fossil fuels and expects to be fully independent of crude oil imports from Russia by late summer. Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck on Sunday said Europes biggest economy has reduced the share of Russian imports in its energy consumption to 12 percent for oil, 8 percent for coal and 35 percent for natural gas. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

German push to cut Russian energy dependence shows results

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

A local man sits in front of an apartment building damaged from heavy fighting as he waits for the kettle to boil in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Live Updates | Explosions in Ukrainian city of Kherson

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Participants of a demonstration walk on a street in the direction of Luetzerath, Germany, Saturday, April 23, 2022. The village of Luetzerath is to make way for the Garzweiler open pit mine. (Henning Kaiser/dpa via AP)

Thousands protest plan to raze German village for coal mine

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Internally displaced people from Mariupol and nearby towns arrive at a refugee center fleeing from the Russian attacks, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Mariupol, which is part of the industrial region in eastern Ukraine known as the Donbas, has been a key Russian objective since the Feb. 24 invasion began. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates | US convening talks on Ukraine’s defense needs

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FILE - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier gestures at a news conference during his meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. The German government signaled irritation Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at a diplomatic snub by Ukraine for the German president, but otherwise sought to sidestep tensions that have flared at a delicate moment in German policymaking on the war. Steinmeier, the largely ceremonial head of state, hoped to travel to Ukraine with his Polish and Baltic counterparts but said Tuesday that his presence “apparently ... wasn't wanted in Kyiv.” (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Germany irritated by Ukraine’s snub of a presidential visit

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

Volunteers collect bodies of murdered civilians, in Bucha, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. Russia is facing a fresh wave of condemnation after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine says Russia preparing offensive in southeast

By Oleksandr Stashevskyi - Associated Press

Smoke and fire are seen after shelling in Odesa, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Max Pshybyshevsky)

Live updates: Zelenskyy: Russian attack is genocide

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A relative mourns on the coffin with the body of 3 year-old Mykola Goryainiv, who died with his parents as they were driving a car trying to evacuate from a fighting zone in Kharkiv region, during a funeral ceremony in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

Live updates: Kremlin decree allows foreign currency for gas

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

The regional government headquarters of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, following a Russian attack, on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says seven people were killed in a missile strike on the regional government headquarters in the southern city of Mykolayiv. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Live updates: Recall Ukraine ambassadors to Georgia, Morocco

By The Associated Press - Associated Press