Shortly before Scholz' statement on the Ukraine war: SPD leader predicts the "end of Putin"

Created: 03/22/2022, 16:43

By: Jonas Raab

Ukraine war and the reactions from Germany: Klingbeil sees the support in Putin's own government "crumbling".

Scholz wants to speak up.

News ticker.

• On February 24, the Ukraine conflict* escalated: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz* will make a joint statement with the President of the European Parliament on Tuesday.

• SPD* leader Lars Klingbeil assumes that the era of Russian President Vladimir Putin is drawing to a close.

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  Briefly explained information on the background of the Ukraine crisis* can be found here.

Berlin - The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, is visiting Berlin.

It is once again about Germany's reactions to the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine*.

On Tuesday morning (March 22), Metsola first met the German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Bellevue Palace for talks before talking to Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at the Federal Foreign Office in the early afternoon.

At 5 p.m. Metsola and Chancellor Olaf Scholz will make public statements on the Ukraine war.

The press event is also eagerly awaited because CDU * leader Friedrich Merz accused the Chancellor last Friday (March 18) of weeks of silence on the Ukraine crisis *.

"It's not enough to make a good government statement on a spectacular Sunday morning," said the CDU chairman at an election campaign event in Neumünster, alluding to Scholz's government statement in the Bundestag at the end of February.

There has to be more.

Ukraine war: CDU leader Merz criticizes Chancellor Scholz for radio silence

"Since the government statement, he's been silent again," criticized Merz.

Sometimes he has the feeling that Scholz is confusing the chancellery with a Trappist monastery.

According to the CDU leader, he had “not given a vow of silence”.

SPD leader Lars Klingbeil* also commented on the Ukraine war in the run-up to Scholz's press conference.

He assumes that the era of Russia's President Vladimir Putin* is coming to an end, the SPD federal chairman said in an interview with the TV channel Bild Live: "I think this war heralded the end of Putin," said blade axe.

After four weeks of war in Ukraine, support in Putin's own government is beginning to "crumble".

SDP leader Lars Klingbeil and Chancellor Olaf Scholz make statements on the Ukraine war.

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Germany's reactions to the Ukraine war: SPD leader Klingbeil believes the Putin era will end soon

"The political processes in Russia will very quickly gain momentum if Putin is questioned," Klingbeil continued.

"He is leading his country into misfortune," was the conclusion of the SPD leader.

The SPD chairman ruled out a later normalization of relations with a Russia* led by Putin: "What I don't see is that at some point we will be sitting at the tables again in a normal relationship with Vladimir Putin," he said.

"That time is over!" He hopes that Putin's political future "will come to an end very quickly".