Ukraine’s Zelenskyy in Paris signed security agreement with France after similar deal with Germany

By GEIR MOULSON and SYLVIE CORBET
Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a bilateral security agreement with France. It comes hours after he officialized a similar deal with Germany on Friday. It is a signal of long-term support as Kyiv works to shore up Western support nearly two years after Russia launched its full-scale war. Zelenskyy met in Berlin with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who said Berlin is providing another 1.1 billion-euro ($1.2 billion) package of military aid. He then met with French President Emmanuel Macron, who said France is providing an additional package worth 3 billion euros ($3.2 billion), Ukraine signed last month its first such bilateral agreement with the U.K. Macron said he would travel to Ukraine by mid-March.