# Merz and Zelenskyy visit bombed science academy in Kyiv

https://mins.news/en/video/85547

- The Associated Press, 2026-10-04 17:09 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QixMvoIYk8

> German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Kyiv on Sunday to demonstrate support for Ukraine as Russia intensified attacks on Ukrainian cities. With President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he visited the damaged National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in central Kyiv and urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his “senseless war.”

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