STORY: (Note: This article has no narration.) Original sound, Annalena Baerbock (Greens), Federal Foreign Minister: “The fact that the Russian President is now turning his back on New Start – he hadn’t shown himself to be committed before – but that I want to emphasize once again that this is absolutely irresponsible. A year ago in the United Nations Security Council, Russia and the other permanent members of the Security Council made it clear that there must be no nuclear escalation, that a nuclear war can never be won and should therefore never be waged And that’s why it would be all the more important, right now, for Russia to be involved in the New Start talks, and it’s true that the United States has made it clear that it wants and would have those talks at any time .” ://: “Especially at the moment when we in Europe have to invest in our own security and thus in our own ability to defend ourselves, because Russia is also attacking the European peace order with its brutal war of aggression in Ukraine, it is more important than ever to talk about disarmament, because what we are seeing right now is that a world with fewer weapons, especially a world with fewer nuclear weapons, would be a safer world.”