00:00Cafe Kyiv in Berlin brings together people who have experienced the war in Ukraine at close quarters.
00:06One of them is Ruben Mawik, who volunteers as a paramedic, repeatedly rescuing civilians in frontline areas in Ukraine.
00:12I started in 2023.
00:15At that time, it was almost a complete artillery and rocket war, a strong front.
00:19There were no big attacks, but there were no attempts.
00:24And in the meantime, it was incredibly dangerous, even further away from the front.
00:30The precision is at least 45 kilometers from the Russians when you go to the important streets,
00:37where I often drive with my hospital.
00:40And in the past, we went to three kilometers to the Russian lines, to get our patients out.
00:44Just like Mawik, Nils Thal has also been helping in Ukraine for several years.
00:49A firefighter based in Nuremberg, he tells Euronews why he decided to help in the war zone.
00:56It is more or less a Russian expansion war.
00:59A lot of people in Russia see the West border as temporary.
01:02It affects us all.
01:03It is against the international order.
01:05And you can't just look at it.
01:06And that goes with a huge burden.
01:09And also what happens if they don't have to do it.
01:13You can't just let it happen.
01:15You have to do it.
01:17Politicians are also visiting Café Kyiv, including German Chancellor Fredrik Mertz,
01:22who took a look at the drones from the German company Quantum Systems during his tour.
01:27Mertz, in his speech, focused on the negotiations intended to bring about a possible end to the war.
01:46For Ukrainian human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matvychuk, sending a clear signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently more important
01:55than ever.
01:56When Russia sees that human dimension means nothing, Putin understood there is no red line.
02:03And that means that he can do whatever he wants.
02:07And now we have the first winter of large-scale war, which is the hardest winter of large-scale war.
02:14Because Russians deliberately destroy energy grid, the very infrastructure that civilians depends on their survival.
02:21We are literally freezing in our flats without heat, water, electricity.
02:26This Tuesday, February 24 marks the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
02:32And now we have to refuse to be here.
02:34Let us see.
02:34You
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