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Medvedev counters Baerbock accusation with Nazi comparison – Ukraine offers Germany nuclear power supply

2022-06-25T03:18:46.717Z


Medvedev counters Baerbock accusation with Nazi comparison – Ukraine offers Germany nuclear power supply Created: 2022-06-25 04:51 By: Kathrin Reikowski, Felix Durach, Tom Offinger Ukraine wants to help Germany with a "Herculean task". Baerbock reaps a Nazi comparison from ex-President Medvedev. The news ticker. Ukraine makes offer to Germany : Energy minister would deliver nuclear power to Ge


Medvedev counters Baerbock accusation with Nazi comparison – Ukraine offers Germany nuclear power supply

Created: 2022-06-25 04:51

By: Kathrin Reikowski, Felix Durach, Tom Offinger

Ukraine wants to help Germany with a "Herculean task".

Baerbock reaps a Nazi comparison from ex-President Medvedev.

The news ticker.

  • Ukraine

    makes offer to

    Germany

    : Energy minister would deliver nuclear power to Germany.

  • Medvedev

    scoffs at

    Baerbock

    : Your accusation leads him to a Nazi comparison.

  • Annalena Baerbock

    criticizes

    Russia

    : The country is using hunger as a weapon of war.

  • This

    news ticker

    on German reactions to the Ukraine war is constantly updated.

Update from June 24, 10:42 p.m

.: According to

Spiegel

information, the Ministry of Economic Affairs is considering a partial expropriation of the Nord Stream2 gas pipeline – the project that was shut down after the start of the Ukraine war.

The advantage of the pipeline is that it is already connected to a distribution grid that stretches as far as southern Germany.

If alternative gas sources are now developed, the gas would also have to be delivered to the south of Germany, for example if it arrived at liquid gas terminals.

In order to solve these problems, one could possibly expropriate the German part of the pipeline and separate it from the other part.

According to Spiegel

, difficulties lie

in the fact that there could be environmental risks and the ownership situation is also unclear.

Ukraine-News: Germany wants to deliver more self-propelled howitzers

Update from June 24, 6:06 p.m

.: Germany wants to deliver more self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine, reports the dpa from Defense Ministry circles.

Talks were being held with the Netherlands and another European partner.

From Kyiv it had been stated that a complete Ukrainian artillery battalion could be equipped with a total of 18 howitzers – i.e. six more models after the delivery of twelve howitzers.

In Berlin there is a firm will to fulfill the request if partners also deliver, so that Germany would deliver three or just two more weapon systems, the dpa was told.

Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) had already announced in the Bundestag last week that after the delivery of the twelve German-Dutch self-propelled howitzers, further systems are to follow.

She named the Mars II multiple rocket launcher, of which Germany and Great Britain each wanted to supply three systems, and the USA four.

The training of Ukrainians on the rocket launcher should begin in June.

Government of Ukraine calls for faster deployment of heavy weapons

"I urge Germany and other partners to speed up deliveries of heavy weapons," Foreign Minister Dimitri Kuleba told

Bild

at about the same time: "You make a real difference.

Each piece strengthens us and enables us to get closer to the day when we will win peace for ourselves and all of Europe.”

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Most urgently, his country needs MLRS and 155mm artillery systems.

“It is true that Soviet-caliber ammunition is running out, but our stockpiles of NATO-caliber ammunition are growing rapidly.

We need more systems to be able to use them," he said.

Ukraine makes an offer to Germany: the energy minister would supply nuclear power to Germany

Update from June 24, 4:55 p.m

.: German Galushchenko, the Ukrainian Minister of Energy, has offered Germany the supply of nuclear power.

Turning away from Russian energy is "a gigantic challenge" for Germany and it is becoming "more and more urgent", wrote the minister in a guest article in

Wirtschaftswoche

.

"But Ukraine can support Germany in this Herculean task."

Since March 16, Ukraine has synchronized its energy grid with the Association of European Transmission System Operators;

"This will allow Ukraine to become an outsourcer of electricity for Germany," Galushchenko wrote.

This creates “a kind of insurance cushion in times of weather-related declining generation from solar and wind power plants”.

Germany and Ukraine could benefit from the different time and climate zones.

The time difference between Kyiv and Berlin is one hour, which means that the power consumption peaks of the two countries would also differ by one hour, Galushchenko wrote.

This allows Germany to "buy Ukrainian electricity cheaper when demand for it falls or there is a significant surplus of green generation."

The Ukraine, in turn, can buy German wind energy in surplus periods.

Medvedev scoffs at Baerbock's accusation with a Nazi comparison

Update from June 24, 3:56 p.m

.: Russian ex-President Dmitry Medvedev reacted to the accusation by Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) that Russia used hunger as a weapon with ridicule and a Hitler comparison.

Such a statement by a German official was "naturally amazing," said Medvedev on Friday in a Twitter message distributed in German and English.

Dimitrij Medvedev (left) at the side of Vladimir Putin.

© Kremlin Pool/imago images

Then he made a direct connection to the crimes of Nazi Germany in the Second World War in the Soviet Union: After all, Baerbock was a representative of a country that "sealed off Leningrad for 900 days in a blockade, where almost 700,000 people died of hunger".

Annalena Baerbock (Greens) accuses Russia of using hunger as a weapon of war

Update from June 24, 11:15 a.m .:

Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) has accused Russia of “deliberately using hunger in the world as a weapon of war”.

Russia "takes the whole world hostage," said Baerbock before the start of an international nutrition conference in Berlin.

345 million people worldwide are currently threatened by food shortages, the hunger crisis is building "like a life-threatening wave before us".

Russia's war "turned this wave into a tsunami," said Baerbock.

Russia blockade ports and shell granaries;

there are also no sanctions against Russian grain exports.

The conference in Berlin is about showing solidarity with Ukraine and with the people in the Global South who are suffering from the Russian war, Baerbock said.

"We have to offer solutions." It's about "accelerating" food exports from Ukraine.

Ukraine-News: Lindner against "war solos" - "would strangle economic development"

Update from June 24, 9.40 a.m .:

Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) has rejected the demand of his Baden-Württemberg counterpart Danyal Bayaz (Greens) for a “war solo”.

Lindner warned the German Press Agency that massive tax increases such as “war solos” could strangle economic development.

“We need more growth impetus, more start-ups, more overtime to ensure our prosperity.

Tax increases would sabotage the strengthening of the economy,” he stressed.

Christian Lindner, Federal Minister of Finance.

(Archive image) © Fabian Sommer/dpa/Archive image

Ukraine-News: Alternative routes for grain export - Özdemir demands replacement for ship route

Update from June 24, 9.35 a.m .:

Before an international nutrition conference in Berlin, Federal Minister of Agriculture Cem Özdemir (Greens) demanded that the international community look for permanent alternatives to exporting Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea.

"When it comes to exporting grain overland, we are no longer just talking about a temporary alternative," Özdemir told the

Tagesspiegel

.

As long as Russia, headed by Vladimir Putin, acts as a “permanent aggressor”, “Ukraine cannot rely on being able to transport its grain safely across the Black Sea, even in the event of peace,” Özdemir continued.

The Minister of Agriculture suggested developing "permanent, high-performance alternatives to the sea route" in order to be able to export Ukrainian agricultural goods bypassing the Black Sea.

Ukraine-News: "War Soli" proposal by Green politicians - "in such a difficult time"

Update from June 23, 10:05 p.m .:

The Baden-Württemberg Finance Minister Danyal Bayaz considers tax increases after the crisis to be unavoidable due to the great burden of the Ukraine war and the corona pandemic.

"Why not something like a war solo in such a difficult time," asked the Green politician on Thursday evening in the

SWR

program "Zur Sache Baden-Württemberg".

The traffic light has ruled out tax increases in its coalition agreement.

"I think that's also dangerous in an acute crisis." But once this crisis is over, the question needs to be answered as to who will pay for the aid packages and the special fund for the Bundeswehr.

That's only possible with tax increases.

"In my opinion, at the end of the day you can't avoid it."

Bayaz emphasized that the question of tax justice must also be asked.

Unlike the Greens in the federal government, he rejects reintroducing the wealth tax as too costly and bureaucratic.

Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) is not entirely wrong with his concerns.

"Every year the company, the vintage car, the Picasso on the wall has to be re-evaluated," said the Green.

Costs and benefits are not balanced here.

There are better ways to tax the rich more heavily.

He advocated reducing the exemptions from inheritance tax.

In any case, it is not a long-term solution to just shoulder the additional burdens through higher debts.

Cuts in gas supplies: Russia rejects allegations by Berlin

Update from June 23, 1:20 p.m .:

In the dispute over the reduction in Russian gas supplies, the Kremlin described Berlin’s accusation that this was politically motivated as “strange”.

Russia will increase deliveries again as soon as the missing turbines have been delivered, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in Moscow.

"If a turbine needs to be checked and you don't use it again after the repair (...), everything is clear, there is no ambiguity," said Peskow.

Germany is "well informed about the maintenance cycles", so it is "really strange to call it political".

Russia remains a "reliable" supplier, the Kremlin spokesman assured.

According to Russian information, the Siemens group has not used turbines to compress gas again after they have been repaired.

As a result, Russia was forced to cut back supplies through the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline by around 60 percent.

Ukraine-News: Lambrecht with a questionable statement - "cheetah is not a tank"

Update from June 23, 10:30 a.m .:

Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) answered questions from the plenum in the German Bundestag on Wednesday.

A key issue in the government survey was the delivery of heavy weapons by Germany to Ukraine.

In this context, the defense policy spokesman for the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Florian Hahn (CSU), put a question to the defense minister.

The 48-year-old wanted to know from Lambrecht where the federal government would see a substantial difference between the Marder and Gepard tank types in the context of the Ukraine conflict.

Because while the traffic light coalition had approved the delivery of Gepard tanks to Ukraine, a delivery of Marder tanks has so far been rejected.

Lambrecht promptly had an answer to the question: “The cheetah is not a tank.

That's the difference." The cheetah is "classified differently" than the marten, the defense minister continued.

This is also “the classification of the general inspector or the military advice.

That's the difference.” “There hasn't been any delivery of western-style tanks so far and that's why there won't be any German going it alone,” Lambrecht concludes her statement.

Ukraine-News: Lambrecht causes a stir with cheetah statement - opposition criticizes lack of expertise

A clear statement from the SPD politician.

But also a comprehensible explanation?

"Of course, the cheetah is a tank, an anti-aircraft tank ,

" explains military historian Prof. Sönke Neitzel from the University of Potsdam to

bild.de.

So both cheetah and marten are tanks by definition.

The purpose of the weapon systems is probably more decisive for the distinction.

The cheetah is used for repelling enemy planes and helicopters at low altitude.

However, the Marder is one of the main battle tanks and is used to fight enemy tanks and infantry on the ground.

Anti-aircraft tanks of the Gepard type are being delivered from Germany to Ukraine.

(Archive image) © Björn Trotsky/imago-images

Even if the differences between the Marder and the Cheetah are large, both weapon systems are definitely tanks.

Lambrecht's imprecision in the details of defense issues was therefore also a treat for the opposition.

"Official designation: 'anti-aircraft gun tank Gepard', but in the opinion of the Federal Minister of Defense 'not a tank'," wrote CDU politician Johann Wadepuhl via Twitter with the ironic hashtag "expertise".

Ukraine News: Melnyk apologizes to Scholz for "liver sausage" statement

First report from June 22, 6 p.m.:

The Ambassador of Ukraine in Germany, Andriy Melnyk, wants to apologize to Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) for his much-criticized "liver sausage" statement.

"That is a statement that I later regret, of course," said Melnyk in the "Top Talks" format of

Spiegel

(Wednesday).

He will apologize to him personally, the diplomat added.

The statement was "diplomatically inappropriate" and "offended many people, not only in Germany".

Wants to apologize for his comment: Ambassador Andriy Melnyk.

© picture alliance/dpa |

Michael Kappeler

At the beginning of May, Melnyk criticized Scholz's preliminary no to a trip to Kyiv with the words: "Playing an insulted liver sausage doesn't sound very statesmanlike." After much hesitation, Scholz finally visited Ukraine in mid-June.

The ambassador also said that the statement had also caused a nuisance in the Ukrainian government.

"My president was not amused," Melnyk said of Volodymyr Zelensky's reaction.

He also had to explain his statement to the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.

Source: merkur

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