Klaus Holetschek spent four days in Ukraine to get an idea of the situation. CSU assures Ukraine of further help – also on the refugee issue.

“Butscha is a beacon of how brutal and cruel this war is. Slaughter, not fine military surgery, a targeted destruction of Ukrainian civil society,” he says. The CSU is at least demanding that Germany should no longer pay citizen's benefit for any newly arriving refugees from Ukraine, but rather lower asylum benefits.