Friedrich Merz is chairman of Germany’s CDU and parliamentary group leader of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.
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The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine has been going on for a year now. The images of the destroyed cities, the news of the many dead and injured on both sides, the fate of those who survived and lost almost everything, and finally this unshakable will of the Ukrainian people to defend their country move us every day , week after week and month after month.
My meeting with President Zelensky, my talks with the Ukrainian government and with the many people affected in the devastated Irpin near Kiev last year are as vivid as the day itself. And only very slowly and contrary to everything we have thought right so far, we begin to understand: this war marks a deep turning point in our contemporary history. There is a time before and a time after.
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