“We know that we were liberated from Nazi rule with victims from the former Soviet Union – and these were also victims from Ukraine, but also from other peoples of the Soviet Union,” said Wadephul. “This is a historical truth that remains and that no one in Germany disputes.” He added: “But we will not allow ourselves or others to be shut down when it comes to clearly denouncing the criminal actions of current and current Russia.”
Addressing Wadephul, Peters said they “agreed that maintaining territorial integrity is a fundamental principle of the international system.”
In a written statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry, Moscow accuses the German government of “stopping hiding the fact that it is driven by an obsession with our country to take revenge for previous defeats.” Part of this “revanchism” is unrestricted support for Ukraine. The Foreign Office in Moscow criticized that 80 years after the end of the Second World War, German weapons were once again being used on a massive scale against Russian territory.
The Bundeswehr is already stationed in Lithuania. If Berlin tried this in Ukraine, the soldiers – like other foreign troops – would be fought as “legitimate targets”, according to the discussion about Germany’s participation in an international security force after the end of the Ukraine war
