Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) expresses understanding for speculation about the alleged death of the Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. “It’s still unclear exactly what happened, because of course you can’t rely on official Russian statements,” she said on the sidelines of a meeting with her Kyrgyz counterpart Jeenbek Kulubayev in Berlin. For at least a year and a half, the Kremlin has repeatedly lied to them. “So it’s no coincidence that the whole world is looking to the Kremlin even now when a disgraced ex-Putin confidante suddenly literally falls out of the sky two months after he rehearsed an uprising.”
You know this pattern, said Baerbock and mentioned “deaths and dubious suicides, window crashes, all of which ultimately remain unsolved”. The Green politician called it important “not to trust any claims, fake news or promises made by the Russian President”, but to support Ukraine in its right to self-defense “with everything we have”.