Roth delivers clear words from Odessa in the "Morgenmagazin" switch - "F * ck off, Black Sea Fleet"

Created: 06/07/2022Updated: 06/07/2022 10:21 am

By: Stephanie Munk

Ukraine War: Claudia Roth travels to Odessa.

On the spot she finds clear words, especially for the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

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• Roth

  visits

  Odessa

  : According to the Minister of State for Culture, Russia is also a threat to Ukraine's culture.

• Chancellor

  in

  Lithuania

  : Olaf Scholz wants to visit German soldiers on NATO's eastern flank.

• German tanks

  for the

  Ukraine

  : Spain now wants to deliver.

• This 

  news ticker

  on Germany's reactions to the Ukraine war 

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Update from June 6, 9.30 a.m .:

Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth visited the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, which was threatened by Russian attacks, and raged against Moscow during the Ukraine war.

According to her, the country's cultural identity is also threatened by the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine.

"This war is also a war against culture, against the culture of democracy," said the Greens politician in Odessa.

After more than three months of war, 375 cultural institutions have been destroyed or damaged.

137 churches are also affected.

"This makes it clear: It's about attacking the cultural identity of Ukraine," said Roth, who promised the country support.

"We are now trying to send an international signal by supporting the nomination of Odessa's old town as a World Heritage City," she said in the ZDF

.

The international community must take responsibility accordingly.

This may also be an additional protective shield against attacks.

On her visit to Odessa, Roth decided to use clear language on the Russian side.

She was given a stamp depicting a Ukrainian soldier on Snake Island in front of the silhouette of the sunken Russian warship Moskva.

The soldier shows the ship the middle finger.

In Ukraine, the insult stamp has become a collector's item.

"Fuck off, Black Sea Fleet," Roth summarized the scene.

Claudia Roth between Odessa Mayor Hennady Trukhanov (right) and the Ukrainian Minister of Culture Olexandr Tkatschenko © Kay Nietfeld/dpa

Ukraine war: Roth visits Odessa - Green politician receives famous Moskva stamp as a gift

Update from June 6, 9:09 p.m

.: Claudia Roth is known for her direct manner, a dpa correspondent currently emphasizes.

The Greens politician traveled to Odessa and received two stamps as a welcome.

A gift from the Ukrainian Minister of Culture Olexandr Tkachenko to his German colleague.

One stamp showed a soldier on land, with the silhouette of the sunken warship Moskva in the background.

In the second variant, the ship has disappeared.

The soldier puts up a middle finger.

"Fuck off, Black Sea Fleet!" Roth translates the symbolism - to the delight of Tkachenko, according to the dpa report.

German tanks in the Ukraine war?

According to the report, Spain wants to deliver "Leopard".

Update from June 6, 6:22 p.m

.: First modern western tanks for Ukraine?

The Spanish government under Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has so far mainly supplied light weapons, ammunition and protective equipment in the escalating Ukraine conflict.

According to a newspaper report, that is now changing.

, they want to send

German Leopard 2 A4 battle tanks and anti-aircraft missiles .

In Germany, politicians from Chancellor Olaf Scholz' SPD had previously emphasized that there was an "informal agreement" between the NATO countries not to supply such weapons.

Both

and

point out that the Spanish delivery plan could probably not take place without Scholz's approval.

The latter reports that a corresponding request from Madrid to Berlin is still pending.

The newspaper writes that these are mothballed tanks that must first be prepared for use, citing information from the Spanish Ministry of Defense.

According to the dpa news agency, there was still no statement from the ministry.

According to El País

, around 40 of the 108 Leopard tanks that Spain bought second-hand in Germany in 1995 could be made operational again.

Chancellor in Lithuania - Scholz visits soldiers on NATO's eastern flank in the midst of the Ukraine war

Update from June 6, 6:08 p.m

.: For the first time since the beginning of the Ukraine war with Lithuania, Olaf Scholz has visited a NATO country that borders Russia and feels particularly threatened by the nuclear power.

On June 7, the SPD politician will meet with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda in Vilnius with the heads of government of all three Baltic states, which in addition to Lithuania also include Latvia and Estonia.

He then visits Bundeswehr soldiers who are stationed in Lithuania to secure NATO's eastern flank, there are currently 1,000. At the NATO summit in Madrid at the end of the month, the question will be whether the troops on the alliance's eastern flank will be increased again.

Along with Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Norway, Lithuania is one of the five NATO countries that share a land border with Russia.

Ukraine war: News from Germany: Green politician Roth in Odessa

First report from June 6

: Odessa - Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth (Greens) arrived on Monday for a two-day visit to Odessa.

The Greens politician is the first member of the federal government to visit the port city on the Black Sea after the start of the Ukraine war.

In the midst of the Ukraine conflict, Roth is in Odessa at the invitation of the Ukrainian Minister of Culture Olexandr Tkachenko.

The city has an incredible amount of culture, Roth said at the start of the trip.

"We want to show that we are there," said Roth, "we want to show how culture is being attacked."

She wants to find out in Odessa what the face of the war looks like beyond the question of heavy weapons.

Offers of humanitarian aid are still rarely mentioned in the debates.

Ukraine war: Claudia Roth visits Odessa - she wants to work for humanitarian aid

Roth has already campaigned several times to support Ukrainian artists in their country and refugee artists in Germany as well as Ukrainian cultural institutions.

In Odessa she will meet, among others, the governor of Odessa Oblast, Maksym Marchenko, and the city's mayor, Hennady Trukhanov.

The Minister of State for Culture also wants to visit the Odessa Film Studio, the city's Philharmonic Theatre, as well as the Odessa Opera, Ballet and Scientific Library.

The city is not only considered a cultural metropolis, but is also of strategic importance.

Recently there were reports of rocket attacks in the Odessa area.

War in Ukraine: Claudia Roth visits Odessa - strategically important target for Russia

In Moscow and Kyiv it is repeatedly said that Russia also aims to capture the port city in the south of the country in order to completely separate Ukraine from the Black Sea.

The country would then no longer have access to the oceans.

Ukraine is one of the largest grain producers in the world.

Exports via the Ukrainian seaports have come to a standstill.

Russia is blocking the export of around 20 million tons of grain, most of which is in the port of Odessa.

War in Ukraine: Claudia Roth visits Odessa - Baerbock and Merz were previously in Kyiv

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) and Development Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD) at the end of May each visited Kyiv on behalf of the Federal Cabinet.

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz (CDU) and Bundestag President Bärbel Bas (SPD) have also been to Kyiv.

Visits to Ukraine during the war: Politics show solidarity

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Unlike several other Western heads of state and government, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has so far refrained from visiting Ukraine.

This was also a reaction to the fact that the Ukrainian side initially refused a visit from Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

These upsets are considered resolved.