“Russia still thinks it can impose a dictated peace with bombs,” Chancellor says
Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned today that there will be no peace in Ukraine until Russian President Vladimir Putin understands he cannot win the war. After announcing new support for the Kiev authorities, the German top executive in a government statement before the Bundestag defended the federal parliament the shipment of heavy weapons to Ukraine and emphasized that “helping defend a country brutally attacked is not an escalation.” , but a contribution to fend off the aggression.” He added: “Putin still thinks he can impose a dictated peace with bombs, but he is wrong. There will be no dictated peace because the Ukrainians won’t But neither do we. Only when the Russian president accepts that he cannot break the Ukrainian defense can there be peace and therefore, he said, “we support Ukraine”, Scholz said before the plenary session of the German lower house.
In an intervention to explain Germany’s position before the next summit of the European Union’s heads of state or government, Scholz reiterated that Germany will not act alone in defense matters. “We will do nothing to make the Atlantic Alliance part of the war or to reduce our defense capacity,” said the federal chancellor, who also urged approval of the extraordinary funds of 100,000 million euros to modernize the Bundeswehr. and rest. the federal army, with new material. In that sense, he assured that the ruling tripartite coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals is in “good talks” with the conservative opposition for the approval of this financial package for military purposes.
Scholz welcomed plans for NATO expansion into Northern Europe. “Dear friends in Sweden and Finland, you are welcome to join us,” said the Social Democratic politician, emphasizing that “with you by our side, NATO will be stronger and safer.” Regarding Ukraine’s possible accession to the European Union, he asked Kiev for patience and quoted French President Emmanuel Macron, realizing that the accession process is “a matter of months or a few years”. To be fair to other EU accession candidates “there can be no shortcut” to access the community of states of the old continent.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s ambassador to Berlin, Andrij Melnyk, again accused the German government of poor military aid to his country. Although the German parliament approved the shipment to Ukraine of heavy weapons such as tanks and large-caliber artillery on April 28, “not a single heavy weapon from Germany has arrived in Ukraine since then,” Melnyk denounced in the editorial papers. It seems that “the federal government does not have the will to help us with heavy weapons as quickly as possible”, explains the ambassador, who confirms that “at the level of the work of the various ministries, including the Ministry of Defense and of Parliament, it is indicated that the Federal Chancellery is responsible for the delays in the shipment of these weapons.
Although Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, resigned weeks ago from his country’s accession to NATO, his ambassador to Germany stated that this accession could be as swift as that of the two northern European countries. “What is clear is that we want to enter NATO quickly. It could happen just as quickly as in the case of Sweden or Finland. All it takes is a political decision to quickly integrate Ukraine into the alliance,” Melnyk said in the interview, assuring that “if Ukraine were in the alliance, the risk of nuclear war would be reduced. Then Putin would know that if he attacks Ukraine with nuclear weapons, he will have to count on a nuclear counterattack. That would scare him off.”
Source: La Verdad
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