It is in a highly symbolic process that, this Monday, Annalena Baerbock, head of German diplomacy, went to the Ukrainian city of Boutcha as well as to that of Irpin.
The city of Boutcha is sadly famous for the bombardments and abuses it suffered, besieged for a month, leaving streets strewn with corpses, some with their hands tied when they were discovered. The images of these facts have pushed world leaders to position themselves, diplomatically.
Thus, after Ursula Von Der Leyen, President of the European Commission, Antonio Gutterres, Secretary General of the UN, it is the turn of Annalena Baerbock, German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, to visit Boutcha, to bear witness, in the continuity of his colleagues, to the concern of the European Union with regard to the invasion of Ukraine.
During this visit, Annalena Baerbock, accompanied by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, first spoke with residents, before demanding that those responsible for the alleged crimes committed in the city be brought to justice.
This visit by the head of German diplomacy comes in a context of lull in relations between Ukraine and Germany, which had refused to supply heavy weapons to kyiv at the start of the conflict, fearing to be considered as a country belligerent by Moscow.
At the same time, on the front, the fate of a thousand soldiers entrenched in the Azovstal steel complex remains uncertain.