Germany is helping Ukraine because Russian President Putin has “put the peace in Europe at risk,” German Chancellor Scholz stressed
Olaf Scholz
Russia leaves Germany no choice but to supply weapons to Ukraine. This was stated by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the congress of the Association of German Trade Unions, reports Münchner Merkur.
«[Russian President Vladimir Putin] Putin leaves us no other choice,” he said. According to Scholz, the Russian leader has threatened peace in Europe, so Berlin is helping Kiev.
The German Chancellor stressed that Putin violated the principle of inviolability of borders in Europe “for his revanchist project of creating the Russian Empire”. If Berlin accepted this, it would strengthen Moscow even more, Scholz concluded.
On the eve of the German Chancellor assured that the country will not make any decisions under which NATO will take part in the conflict in Ukraine.
At the end of April, the lower house of the German parliament by a majority of votes supported a document calling on the government to supply heavy weapons to Ukraine.
However, Scholz considered that Berlin should not make hasty decisions about sending heavy weapons to Ukraine. He noted that Germany will not supply Kiev with Western-made combat tanks until the United States and allies do it.
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The leader of the opposition CDU party, Friedrich Merz, criticized Scholz in “cowardice” in connection with his cautious position on military assistance to Ukraine.
Also, the Chancellor’s policy on this issue was criticized by the Ambassador of Ukraine Andriy Melnyk. So, he considered that Germany decided too late to transfer Gepard anti-aircraft self-propelled guns (ZSU) to Kiev.
By the end of April, Germany supplied Ukraine with 2.5 thousand anti-aircraft missiles, 900 anti-tank grenade launchers with ammunition of 3 thousand shells, 100 machine guns and 15 bunker launchers with 50 rockets, 100 thousand hand grenades, 2 thousand mines and more than 16 million rounds of ammunition.
Russia has repeatedly warned Western countries that convoys with similar cargoes on the territory of Ukraine will become legitimate targets for the Russian military.
Speaking at the Victory Day Parade on May 9, Putin called the operation in Ukraine the only way to prevent aggression against its own territory and recalled that Moscow had offered Washington and NATO to agree on security guarantees.
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