Scholz: Do not accept a "dictated peace" for Ukraine
Created: 05/13/2022Updated: 05/13/2022 18:44
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) speaks.
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has promised Ukraine further support in defending against Russian attacks.
"Revanchism and imperialism must not determine reality in Europe," Scholz said on Friday in Cologne at the SPD's final rally two days before the state elections.
Russia is waging a "brutal war of aggression against an innocent neighbor solely to expand its own power and expand its own territory," Scholz said.
Düsseldorf/Cologne - The Chancellor was received with great cheering by the spectators.
Germany will continue to deliver weapons to Ukraine, said Scholz.
On Friday, the chancellor spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time in weeks.
In Russia it has not yet been understood that peace will not be possible if Moscow takes a piece of Ukraine by military force, but only "with an understanding, an agreement, a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia, which is not a dictated peace". , said Scholz in front of about 1500 spectators.
"We will not accept a dictated peace for Ukraine."
Scholz pointed to the consequences of the war for Ukraine and drew a comparison to Germany.
77 years after the end of World War II, duds are still being found in Germany.
Citizens would also “remember Putin's war in Ukraine for another 100 years”.
Germany is obliged to help Ukraine.
But that must not lead to a military confrontation between NATO and Russia.
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