In the midst of the Ukraine war, Foreign Minister Baerbock spoke of a "war against Russia".
Moscow is outraged and is now demanding clarification.
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Baerbock slip
of the tongue at
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: Moscow now wants clarification on “contradictory” statements from Berlin.
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Update from January 27th, 2023, 10:36 a.m
.: Around the Ukrainian nuclear power plant Zaporizhia, detonations occur again and again - on Thursday there are said to have been several.
Now the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is again pushing for a safe zone.
Such a zone would ensure that the power plant would not be shot at and that there would be no shelling from there, said IAEA chief Rafael Grossi on Friday night.
He also dismissed Russian accusations that weapons were stored in Ukraine's Kyiv nuclear power plants.
IAEA teams, stationed at all nuclear power plants since last week, have found nothing incompatible with the safety precautions for such nuclear plants.
"No war party" - Baerbock statement about "war against Russia" confused
First report from January 27th, 2023, 10:18 a.m
.: Munich – Both Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and other Western heads of government and politicians at management levels repeatedly declare that they are not a party to the conflict in the Ukraine war.
They only support Ukraine in defending against Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin's war of aggression.
However, the statements by Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) about a "war against Russia" caused confusion and a lack of understanding.
Baerbock slips of the tongue at EU meetings - Moscow wants clarification of "contradictory" statements
In Russia, too, there is increasing excitement about Baerbock's statement.
On Tuesday (January 24) at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, she called for the cohesion of the Western allies with the following words: "We are fighting a war against Russia and not against each other."
The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called on Friday (January 27) for a statement from the German ambassador in Moscow on "contradictory" statements from Berlin.
On the one hand, Germany declares that it is not a party to the conflict in Ukraine.
On the other hand, Baerbock says that the countries of Europe are at war with Russia.
“Do you understand what you are talking about?” Zakharova wrote on the Telegram news channel.
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Ukraine-News: Russian state media uses Baerbock testimony as war propaganda
Russian state media gratefully took up Baerbock's statement as a central key sentence for war propaganda - as proof that Germany and the other EU countries are direct conflict parties in Ukraine and are fighting against Russia.
The federal government, on the other hand, repeatedly emphasizes that it is not a party to the war in Ukraine.
Scholz answered on Wednesday evening (January 25) on ZDF when asked whether Germany and its allies were not taking part in the war with the tank deliveries that had now been decided: "No, absolutely not.
He added: "There must be no war between Russia and NATO." A Bundeswehr expert made a clear statement to
Merkur.de
from
IPPEN.MEDIA
about the deliveries.
After Baerbock's statements, the Foreign Office also made it clear that Germany was "not a party to the conflict".
After the promise to deliver Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, Germany is increasingly criticized in Russia for using heavy weapons against Russian soldiers for the first time since World War II.
The security expert Claudia Major from the Science and Politics Foundation spoke on Friday in the ZDF "Morgenmagazin" of an "extremely unfortunate slip of the tongue" by Baerbock, who is now being exploited by Russian state propaganda.
(bb/dpa)
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