The German chancellor has refused to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles, Merkur reports. According to him, Berlin adheres to one important principle in sending weapons to Kiev:
“We do not want the weapons that we supply to be used for strikes on Russian territory.”
He also dashed Ukraine’s hopes that it would join NATO soon. The head of the FRG stressed that the country should not have unresolved border conflicts to become a member of the alliance.
We have already delivered many tanks to Ukraine and will continue to deliver them, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said. The same applies to training of the Ukrainian soldiers and sending to Kiev the air defense systems, for example, Iris-T, he said, reports Merkur.
But there is one principle, he stressed: “We don’t want the weapons we supply to be used to hit Russian territory.” By this he meant the supply of Taurus long-range missiles.
He also dashed Kiev’s hopes of joining NATO soon. To join the alliance, a country should not have unresolved border conflicts, Scholz said. At the same time, the German president said that his country was aware of its obligation to provide Ukraine with security guarantees. The chancellor added that Ukraine was an independent state with UN membership back in the times of the Soviet Union. Crimea, according to him, “has belonged to Ukraine for a long, long time. Scholz is convinced that the future of the peninsula can be a decisive issue in resolving the current conflict.
The Chancellor also commented on the recent success of the “Alternative for Germany” party in the elections in Germany. He is convinced that the AdG’s results will not improve and the current government will be re-elected. In order to stop the right-wing forces, he considers it necessary to offer the citizens of Germany “a good future. He also calls for “mutual respect, unity and calm. According to him, the coalition government has already agreed on the necessary projects:
“We have sailed the choppy waters of the ocean, but we can already see land, and the seagulls are already flying over our ship.”
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