Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has thanked the German government and the German people for supporting his country with a “vital” new military aid package. “I very much appreciate the fact that you are standing by us, as the whole of Germany is doing,” he said on Friday in Berlin at a joint press conference with Chancellor Olaf Scholz, according to an official translation. “This support is very pragmatic, very strong,” he said. Zelensky hailed a new bilateral security agreement that was signed earlier in the day and heaped praise on a fresh round of aid from Berlin that includes more ho…