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LIVE - War in Ukraine: the Russians continue their offensive, the Ukrainian army resists
As during the first quarter of a century after the war, Berlin once again became the European crossroads of the Cold War in a weekend.
Hundreds of thousands gathered on either side of the Brandenburg Gate in support of Ukraine on Sunday as the German government made a major U-turn in its diplomacy.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz has resolved to deliver weapons to Kiev, announced his country's indebtedness to finance the spectacular increase in the national military budget, adhered to the European project aimed at removing Russia from the Swift system of financial transactions, and dropped all rhetorical reservations by calling Vladimir Putin a
“war criminal”
.
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A thousand anti-tank rocket launchers, 500 Stinger surface-to-air missiles…
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