When Putin is asked about the Nazi background in Baerbock's family, he hesitates - then defends her. “I don’t believe that today’s generation of Germans should bear full political responsibility for what Nazi Germany did,” said the Kremlin chief.
The Green Party politician speaks openly about her grandfather, who was a Wehrmacht officer on the Eastern Front. The background can be assumed to be the Ampel government's policy of making Germany independent of Russian gas because of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.