German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock committed a new mistake, describing Ukrainian pills as "cocaine" during a joint press conference with her Romanian counterpart, Luminica Odobescu.
"I thank Romania for expanding its infrastructure of European Solidarity Corridors in order to double the export capacity of cocaine pills to 4 million tons per month by the end of the year," Birbock said.
The minister's speech was broadcast on the German Foreign Ministry's page on the social networking site "X" (formerly Twitter).
This is not the first time that Berbuk has fallen into strange slips of the tongue, as it has previously called eastern Ukraine the name "Eastern Cocaine". And last June, during a conference in South Africa, the politician dubbed the country's path to freedom "the bacon of hope ," mixing up the words "bacon" and "beacon".
Russia : Moscow announces the destruction of boats in the Black Sea and Kiev says it shot down 17 Russian drones
Moscow announced that it had destroyed speedboats in the Black Sea carrying Ukrainian soldiers, and shot down Ukrainian drones off the Crimean peninsula, while Kiev said that it had succeeded in shooting down 17 Russian drones from the Odessa region.
Moscow confirmed on Monday that it had destroyed four speedboats carrying Ukrainian soldiers in the Black Sea.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said on “Telegram” that “planes belonging to the Black Sea Fleet destroyed” on the night of Sunday-Monday “in the northwestern part of the Black Sea” four American-made Willard Sea Force fast military boats (carrying) landing groups for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. ".
The ministry revealed that the boats were heading towards Cape Tarkhankut in western Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.
Moscow also announced that it shot down a Ukrainian drone over the Black Sea off Crimea, and another in the Russian Kursk region bordering Ukraine.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported (Wednesday) the destruction of four Ukrainian gunboats carrying 50 special forces personnel.
Moscow had previously announced that it had destroyed three Ukrainian boats in the Black Sea on the night of Friday-Saturday, which it said had tried to attack the strategic Crimean bridge in the Kerch Strait, which had been targeted earlier during the summer.
In this context, Russian strikes targeted the Odessa region in southern Ukraine, targeting in particular the vicinity of the city of Izmail on the Danube River, according to local governor Oleg Kiper, noting that Ukrainian forces succeeded in shooting down 17 Russian drones.
Moscow has intensified its attacks on the Odessa and Mykolaiv regions, where ports and facilities are vital for exporting grains, since the collapse of the agreement concluded in the summer of 2022 under the auspices of Turkey and the United Nations.