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Scholz pledges continued support to Ukraine - rocket attack proof of Putin's "brutal aggression"

2022-06-28T11:33:29.445Z


Scholz pledges continued support to Ukraine - rocket attack proof of Putin's "brutal aggression" Created: 06/28/2022, 13:25 By: Franziska Schwarz Scholz assures Ukraine of further support. Friedrich Merz considers this to be urgently needed. The news ticker on German reactions to the Ukraine war. FDP politician calls for German tanks for Ukraine : Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann would like to se


Scholz pledges continued support to Ukraine - rocket attack proof of Putin's "brutal aggression"

Created: 06/28/2022, 13:25

By: Franziska Schwarz

Scholz assures Ukraine of further support.

Friedrich Merz considers this to be urgently needed.

The news ticker on German reactions to the Ukraine war.

  • FDP politician calls for

    German tanks for Ukraine

    : Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann would like

    to send Marder to Ukraine

    .

  • "Credible deterrence" for

    Putin

    on

    NATO's north-east flank

    : The commander of

    the Bundeswehr

    's Operations Command , Bernd Schütt, sees "danger".

  • "Deepfake" attempt

    in the

    Ukraine war

    : Melnyk also warns Germany against hybrid warfare against Russia.

  • This

    news ticker

    on German reactions to the Ukraine war is constantly

    updated

    .

Update from June 28, 1 p.m.:

At the end of the G7 summit, Chancellor Olaf Scholz underlined the support of the leading industrial nations for Ukraine.

The G7 stand "closely and steadfastly on the side of Ukraine," said Scholz on Tuesday.

"We support the country in its defense and offer it a perspective for the future."

The rocket attack on a shopping center in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk this Monday, which left many dead and injured, is further proof that Russian President Vladimir Putin "is maintaining his brutal aggression towards the population," criticized Scholz.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) assured Ukraine of further support at the conclusion of the G7 summit.

© KERSTIN JOENSSON / AFP

Ukraine News: CDU leader Merz calls for more military support - attack on "our freedom"

Update from June 28, 9:35 a.m .:

CDU leader Friedrich Merz has called for more military support for Ukraine from the federal government.

"The course of the war shows very clearly that the Ukrainian army is not in a position to adequately counter this Russian aggression militarily," said the 66-year-old on Tuesday on ZDF's "Morgenmagazin".

Currently, Ukraine is hardly in a position to reconquer the lost territories.

"The federal government has finally decided to deliver at least a few self-propelled howitzers," said Merz.

He welcomes this decision, but in his opinion something should have happened earlier.

The Russian war of aggression borders on "genocide" and is therefore also an attack on "our freedom," warned Merz.

However, the party chairman rejects the comparison with the fight against the Hitler regime in World War II.

"That one event was unique in human history." British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday compared the war against Putin's Russia with the resistance against Hitler's Nazi Germany.

In an interview with the ZDF "Morgenmagazin", CDU leader Friedrich Merz called for further military support for Ukraine.

© Screenshot/ZDF

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In addition, the CDU leader also welcomes the increase in NATO's rapid reaction force.

"Something is happening here and it is urgently needed," says Merz.

Strack-Zimmermann continues to push for the delivery of Marder armored personnel carriers

Update from June 27, 4 p.m.:

The chairwoman of the Bundestag Defense Committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, continues to urge Ukraine to be provided with German Marder armored personnel carriers.

"I never tire of demanding, together with my colleagues from the FDP, that at least 50 Marder tanks be sent from the Bundeswehr," she told TV station Welt on Monday.

The Federal Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said in this regard last week: There will be no "German solo effort" on this issue.

The Federal Security Council has therefore not yet approved export applications from the industry for Leopard and Marder tanks.

Bundeswehr decision-maker advocates "credible deterrence" on NATO's north-eastern flank

Update from June 27, 9:57 a.m .:

The new commander of the Bundeswehr Operations Command, Bernd Schütt, sees the greatest danger of a military escalation with Russia on the north-eastern flank of NATO: "And that's why the point of credible deterrence in this region is for me a very central point.

The presence of land forces plays a central role here,” said the dpa lieutenant general.

After more concrete Russian threats in the dispute over transit traffic to the Russian Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad, fears in the Baltic States have recently grown.

The so-called Suwalki gap, a close land connection between the Baltic states and the other NATO countries, is considered a geographical weak point.

It separates Kaliningrad from Belarus.

Lieutenant General Bernd Schütt is the new commander of the Bundeswehr Operations Command.

© Carsten Hoffmann/dpa

"In the area of ​​the Suwalki gap, it is only a short jump and there the danger of a test of NATO's will and ability to defend itself is relatively great.

In this area you can move troops relatively quickly and then, for example, carry out an initial attack using airborne troops," said Schütt.

"In Putin's rationale: maybe he thinks NATO isn't coming." That's why it's so important for NATO troops to be present and reinforced in the Baltic states.

At the moment there are no signs of any preparations for an attack on NATO territory, Schütt said at the same time.

However, credible deterrence is key.

The Russians can't do that without any preparation either,” he emphasized.

There is a warning time, but not the preparation time to then train and bring forces together.

Ukraine News: Zelenskyy connected via video at the G7 summit

Update from June 27, 6:47 a.m

.: The Ukrainian President Selenskyj (44) joins the G7 deliberations at Schloss Elmau via video.

It's about weapons, but also about long-term support for the shattered country.

He had already called for more military aid for his country at the weekend.

Zelenskyj sees Ukraine in a difficult phase of the war.

For the first time in three weeks, the capital Kyiv was fired at with rockets again at the weekend.

In addition, after weeks of fighting, Russia was able to take control of the city of Sievjerodonetsk in eastern Ukraine.

"Deepfake-Klitschko": Melynk warns of "perfidious weapon" - Mayors of Vienna and Madrid also fooled

First report from June 26th:

Berlin - sensational incident in the Ukraine war: the phone call with a wrong Klitschko also caused malice over Franziska Giffey.

But not by Andriy Melnyk.

"No deepfakes or other tricks by the Russians can shake the trust between Ukraine and Germany," Ukraine's ambassador told

Welt am Sonntag

.

Klitschko on the phone: Now the real one is contacting Giffey in the Ukraine conflict

The real Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kiev, spoke in the

picture

about "criminal activity", which the state security authorities are investigating.

He now offered Giffey a phone call through the official channels via the newspaper.

She accepts that "very gladly", tweeted the SPD politician.

A video call between the Governing Mayor of Berlin and the alleged Klitschko had been prematurely terminated - after considerable doubts about the authenticity of the interlocutor.

The Berlin Senate Chancellery announced this on June 24th.

"Deepfake" attempt in the Ukraine war: Melnyk warns of hybrid warfare

The Senate Chancellery said it appears the alleged Klitschko was a "deepfake," a technology that uses artificial intelligence to insert real people's faces into photos or films.

So it seems as if the real person is speaking.

According to Melnyk, the incidents show that deepfakes need to be taken much more seriously as part of Russia's hybrid warfare.

"It's a perfidious psychological weapon and the technology keeps getting better," he told

WamS

.

Ukraine war: Mayors of Vienna and Madrid also deepfake targets

According to media reports from Austria and Spain, the mayors of Vienna and Madrid were also called by the wrong Klitschko.

The Spaniard is also said to have broken off the call quickly.

(frs with AFP)

Source: merkur

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