2024-01-28 21:40:45
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned urgently that if Russia wins once morest his country, other European countries such as Germany will also be at risk. The German federal government has now realized that “Russia will move closer to Germany if we don’t hold out,” said Zelensky in an ARD interview broadcast on Sunday evening that was recorded on Wednesday.
The Ukrainian head of state added that it seemed to him that Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz “understands this risk. And that clearly means – Third World War.” Zelensky added that he might not say whether Russia would first target Germany, Poland or the Baltic states following a victory over Ukraine.
The Ukrainian head of state called for further aid for his country. Any support from its partners is very important for Ukraine, “so that Ukraine does not have the feeling of being alone.” Germany and other states must show whether, from their point of view, Ukraine is “right and Russia should be put in its place.”
Regarding the wrangling over the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles from Germany to Ukraine, Zelensky said that this was “a topic” in his talks with Scholz. He did not want to comment further on the status of the talks. However, he emphasized that it would “hardly help” Germany if it kept important weapons for itself instead of making them available to Ukraine in its current fight once morest Russia.
At the same time, Zelensky recalled that Germany had not taken Russia’s aggression once morest Ukraine seriously enough for a long time. “I was disappointed by German politics, which, when Crimea was occupied, did not play the role that Ukraine, Europe and the world “deserved,” said Zelensky, referring to Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula in 2019 2014.
February 24th marks the second anniversary of the start of the Russian war of aggression once morest Ukraine. In the ARD interview, Zelenskyj admitted the need to relieve frontline soldiers through more frequent replacements. Zelensky said it was clear to him that, given the achievements of Ukrainian soldiers, “gratitude is not enough.” “We need a fair rotation, they need vacation, because money alone can’t make up for it.”
Zelensky pointed out that a new law for more frequent replacement of front-line soldiers was being prepared. The government in Kiev is responding to repeated protests by relatives of the frontline soldiers who are demanding relief for the fighters.
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