Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the latest in a series of meetings with Kyiv’s western allies in Germany had resulted in pledges of an additional $2bn in military assistance to help it fight the war against Russia. Zelenskyy, speaking to My-Ukraina television channel after Thursday’s meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG) in Ramstein, gave few details of the assistance, but said that 34 countries had pledged support in different aspects of the 34-month-old war. “We had a very good meeting, a very good result. There was $2bn in additional packages of support to Ukraine,” he said in a