foreign minister Annalena Baerbock currently sees no chance for negotiations to end the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. The negotiation offer from Russian President Vladimir Putin to Kyiv reads something like this: We’ll rob your country, subdue your citizens, and you can then sign it, the Green politician told the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (Tuesday). “It’s the opposite of peace. That is terror and lack of freedom.”
Nevertheless, they themselves and the government were constantly looking for a diplomatic solution. “We try every day. Every day since February 24, one of the more than 190 countries in the world or an international organization on behalf of the world community has asked the Russian President to stop bombing,” said the Foreign Minister. “The the only answer from the Russian President is more atrocities.”
Regarding the criticism, also from Ukraine, that Germany was too hesitant to deliver arms, she said that in the past few months she had “repeatedly reflected self-critically” on whether Germany was delivering fast enough. “But at the same time we must not ignore the fact that we are in an unpredictable situation because the Russian President is breaking every international, political and human rule.” But Germany’s military resources are also limited. “And it would be presumptuous to believe that Germany could change the course of the war on its own. We can only do that together with our international partners.”
