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Status: 09/22/2022 02:38 am
According to Foreign Minister Baerbock, the next few weeks will be crucial for Ukraine’s defensive struggle. The German Reservist Association calls the Russian partial mobilization “inhuman”. All developments in the live blog.
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German reservist association calls Russian partial mobilization “inhuman”
According to the German Reservists Association, the partial mobilization of 300,000 Russian reservists for the war against Ukraine could weaken rather than strengthen Russian troops. “Sending such poorly prepared soldiers into a war is inhuman and will be a military disaster for Russia,” said the president of the reservists’ association, Patrick Sensburg, to the newspapers of the editorial network Germany. Reservists also need to be well trained and prepared. It takes weeks for that. With a partial mobilization, the Russian President Vladimir Putin could not replace the large number of dead and retiring soldiers.
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Baerbock: Decisive for Ukraine’s defensive struggle in the next few weeks
In the debate about the delivery of German battle tanks to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock tried to dispel the impression of dissent with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD). Like her, the chancellor understands that Ukraine wants all the material it can have in the fight for its existence, said the Greens politician in the evening on the ZDF program “Markus Lanz”. “The important thing is that we are pooling all our strengths over the next few weeks and not looking at where there are differences between the foreign minister and the chancellor.”
Together we must ensure that the war is ended as quickly as possible – in such a way that Ukraine is free, said the minister. The next few weeks and months are crucial – “the more people can be freed, the more lives can be saved”. That’s why it’s “crucial that we make progress here” with a view to the tanks. The federal government will make a responsible decision here and in coordination with the partners.