Germany is working with international partners on the air transportation of Ukrainian refugees from Moldova.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said this.

Such air transport is "absolutely sensible," Berbock said Saturday after a meeting with her Moldovan counterpart, Nicu Popescu, in Chisinau.

At the same time, she announced that the federal government will transport 2,500 Ukrainian refugees from Moldova directly to Germany as a first step.

Berboc said this would only be the beginning of Moldova's support in receiving and distributing refugees with other countries inside and outside the European Union. A "green corridor" with buses through Romania is being built for this purpose. People should also be taken out of Moldova directly or through neighboring countries with greater airport capacity. It could also go across the Atlantic, Burbock said, to the United States or Canada, for example.

Moldova, with its roughly 2.6 million residents, has received about 300,000 people from Ukraine. About 100,000 are still in the country.