the Union has accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD).in the Supply of arms to Ukraine to stand on the brakes. The CDU foreign politician Roderich Kieswetter said on Saturday on the rbb24 info radio that he expected Scholz to finally implement the Bundestag decision on this. The Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Foreign Office had issued all permits (for arms deliveries). Now it is up to Scholz, as chairman of the Federal Security Council, to make these deliveries possible. “It’s blocking the chancellery,” complained Kiesewetter. Without the supply of heavy weapons, war crimes would not be prevented.
Of the CDU foreign expert Norbert Röttgen made a similar statement. “It is tragic that now, in the most difficult and loss-making weeks for Ukraine, nothing can be expected from the federal government in terms of weapons that it needs right now,” Röttgen told the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (Saturday). “Ukraine will pay a high price in blood because it is missing artillery weapons right now,” warned the CDU politician.
Overall, the chancellor’s actions were aimed at “not doing anything that would seriously damage his ability to talk to Putin. And I think that’s a serious mistake,” said Röttgen. Also called Kiesewetter as a reason for Scholz’s hesitant attitude that he “still believes, together with Macron, to be able to negotiate with Putin.” But there was only one thing that could be offered to Putin: forehead, emphasized Kiesewetter.