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… create a pan-European structure that would include Ukraine under London's auspices. In February, less than a week before the invasion, London, Warsaw, and Kyiv announced the creation of a British-Polish-Ukrainian military initiative that the Ukrainian foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, called a ''tripartite format of cooperation." According to reports in the Italian media, during his April visit to Kyiv Johnson proposed to Zel ensky the creation of a potential rival to the European Union-a UK led … quipped that Germany's next delivery to Ukraine would consis t of pillows. 2 9 The start of all-out warfare on February 24 took Scholz and the German political elite completely by surprise. "We have woken up in a different world," stated Scholz's foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock. On February 27, in an unprecedented Sunday session of the Bundestag, Scholz declared a major shift in German foreign policy: on the previous day the government had approved a shipment of 1,000 anti-tank and 500 surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine. The requests of Estonia and the Netherlands to transfer some of the German weaponry in their posses sion to …