Jens Plötner／ “You can fill a lot of newspaper pages with 20 Marders, but larger articles about what will actually be our relationship with Russia in the future are somehow less frequent,” Plötner said, speaking at the German Council on Foreign Relations.
5/5 Ukraine's ambassador to Germany in March boycotted a solidarity concert hosted by Steinmeier, protesting that the soloists featured on the programme were all Russians. "In the middle of a war against civilians! An affront. Sorry I'm staying away," Andrij Melnyk wrote on Twitter.
Rather than eliciting an outpouring of self-reflection, the perceived snub generated a fierce backlash against Ukraine across the political spectrum. Scholz called Kyiv’s decision “irksome”.〜 a snap back to a default position of delayed action to support Ukraine —〜“European interests
12/13 German officials say they had hoped to use Nord Stream’s expected demise as a bargaining chip in talks with Poland, ／which is dead set against the pipeline. In exchange for backing away from Nord Stream, Berlin wanted Warsaw to drop demands that Germany pay war reparations.／
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