The article notes that while Ukrainian soldiers die every week in eastern Ukraine, Germany refuses to help “a young democracy that is striving for Europe.”
In particular, we are talking about refusal to provide Ukraine with lethal weapons, about which asks President Volodymyr Zelensky… The author notes that Germany’s position on this issue has not changed since 2014, when Ukraine was attacked by Russia and first asked for military assistance in Berlin.
The material also criticizes the position of German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who is a representative of the Social Democratic Party.
“Germany’s position stems from a mixture of misunderstood pacifism and appeasement towards Russia. And this shows that the moral compass of the foreign policy of the federal government and, above all, the Social Democratic Party of Germany with its illustrious ranks of prominent apologists for Russia has not worked well for a long time.” , – the newspaper notes.
It is separately mentioned that Germany implements the Nord Stream 2 projectwho promotes Moscow’s strategic interests and gives the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin a tool to blackmail Ukraine.
“When it comes to noble words, largely useless negotiating bodies such as the Normandy format, or inconsequential press statements by the foreign minister, Germany supports Ukraine. Germany’s actions are proactive, like Nord Stream 2, or ignored, like in the case of a lack of military assistance, they speak a different and much more ambiguous language, “emphasizes Die Welt.
Zelensky, in an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, published on May 31, advocated granting Ukraine military aid from Germany… The head of state spoke about the meeting with the co-chairman of the German Union 90 / Greens party Robert Habek. The German politician then said that Germany “should reconsider the principled” no “in the issue of providing military assistance to Ukraine.” The German government did not support his idea.
Zelensky also said that expected more from German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “I know that Germany can do more. Because what they are doing for us, they are doing for themselves. Why they don’t understand this, I don’t know,” the President of Ukraine said.
Immediately after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the one hand and the Russian army and Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions on the other. Officially, the Russian Federation does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine. According to the UN, during the conflict about 13 thousand people died.
Assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine during this time was provided by various states, among them – the USA, Canada, Great Britain, France, reported in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
