German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock rejected the possibility of negotiations with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, who she said was waging a cruel war of aggression in Ukraine.
Baerbock gave his opinion in an interview with the German newspaper Bild published on July 15.
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When asked if it was possible to hold talks with Putin, Baerbock replied “no”.
“I wish we could come to an agreement. But right now it’s not about what we want, it’s about the fact that we have to face the truth… And it’s a cruel war of Russian aggression,” the minister said. .
When asked if she foresees the fall of the Putin regime in the near future, Baerbock replied that she had no such information and did not know how long the war would last.
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“I have no idea. That’s exactly the point. We don’t know when this war will end. We don’t know what’s going on in Russia. Because we’re not dealing with a country that, like us, is fortunately democratic,” she said.
On July 11, it was reported that the German federal government had prepared a new military aid program for Ukraine. According to the sources of the German publication Der Spiegel, a delivery of air defense equipment, infantry fighting vehicles, ammunition and drones worth 600 million euros is planned.
Der Spiegel wrote that the most valuable element of this package could be the Patriot air defense systems and the corresponding missiles.
At the NATO summit in Vilnius on July 12, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and announced an agreement on supplying Ukraine with additional Patriot launchers and missiles for them from Germany .
Scholz said on July 14 that the value of arms deliveries to Ukraine from Germany since the start of the full-scale invasion of Russia would reach a total of around 17 billion euros by 2027. .
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As the German Chancellor noted, his country is second only to the United States in providing support to Ukraine, especially in the military sphere.
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