Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen and Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg have pledged Austria’s “unwavering solidarity” with Ukraine on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Russian invasion. “Russia has started this illegal war of aggression. And it is Russia that must put an end to it,” Schallenberg emphasized on Saturday.
Van der Bellen said in his own video message, which according to the presidential office will also be used on Ukrainian TV, addressed to Ukrainians: “Ukraine belongs to the European family.” Russia started ‘an unjustified and disgusting war of aggression’. two years ago. The Federal President spoke of two years “of immeasurable human losses and suffering”. He praised the “heroic resistance” of Ukrainians. “Your sacrifice must not be in vain.”
Schallenberg: “senseless war”
Schallenberg spoke of a “senseless war”. “After two years of fighting, Russia is no closer to victory in this war.” Austria’s support for Ukraine remains “as unwavering as on day one,” Schallenberg continued. Austria supports Ukraine in its struggle for freedom, sovereignty and territorial integrity. “The citizens of Ukraine deserve a just and lasting peace.”
The Green Party’s foreign policy spokeswoman Ewa Ernst-Dziedzic stressed that Ukraine should not be handed over “into the bloody hands of dictator Putin.” “If Russia achieves its war goals, the Ukrainian state and Ukrainian identity would be a thing of the past,” Ernst-Dziedzic said. “Support to Ukraine is not only a moral obligation, but a security policy obligation,” Ernst-Dziedzic said. And she also described it as a “security risk” that the FPÖ has never distanced itself from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Kickl detects “warmongering by the EU”
FPÖ federal party chairman, club president Herbert Kickl, criticized the EU’s “belligerence” given the hundreds of thousands of victims on both sides. “Instead of applying pressure from the start and pushing both warring parties to enter into serious negotiations, the European Commission has further forced the escalation spiral by supplying more and more weapons,” Kickl explains. To believe that a war will end quickly with arms deliveries is “outrageous and irresponsible.”
Source: Krone
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