German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 31. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is playing a double game and pretending to help Ukraine. This opinion of the senior researcher of the German Institute of International Relations Sabina Fischer leads the British edition of The Spectator. In a recent television address to the Ukrainians, Scholz said that Germany is on their side, the expert recalled. At the same time, she accused the German authorities of disrupting the supply of promised weapons to Kyiv. Fischer also notes that trade relations with Russia have always been a priority for the German government. Berlin even now prefers them, while pretending to support Ukraine within the framework of the EU and NATO consensus, the author of the article believes. — summarizes The Spectator. . In his opinion, the German authorities want to wait out the Ukrainian crisis and deal with other issues so that, contrary to promises, they do not supply weapons to Kyiv. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The Russian army strikes only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, and has already completed the main task of the first stage — it has significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal of the operation in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.Read the full text of the article on the InoSMI website >>
