German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock also said Germany the Russian annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea Peninsula would "never be accepted."

"Russia's illegal annexations in Ukraine are null and void," she said in a video message broadcast at the Crimea Platform meeting in Kyiv.

She called the occupation "a direct attack on the United Nations Charter and on international law, which we will never accept - and which will not go unpunished."

"Germany will continue to support Ukraine for as long as necessary" -- Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany @ABaerbock pic.twitter.com/lHLemDWGkt

— Crimea Platform (@crimeaplatform) August 23, 2023