In recent days, Peter Carstens and Konrad Schuler described in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung how the German government has begun to cut spending on military aid to Ukraine. They believe that most of the equipment that has been previously approved will be delivered, but additional requests from the Defense Ministry will be rejected, as recommended by Chancellor Scholz.
In their article, the journalists point to a letter sent by Finance Minister Christian Lindner on August 5 to Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, which is supposed to confirm these reports.
“Next year, the situation in Ukraine will deteriorate even more, as planned military aid is expected to decrease by almost half, and in 2027 it will fall to less than a tenth of the current amount,” we can read in “FAZ”.
The government denies this. What’s next for Ukraine?
Olaf Scholz’s government has been under great pressure not only from the opposition in the Christian Democratic Union, but even from politicians of the ruling parties.
Following the publication of Peter Carstens and Konrad Schuler, the Finance Ministry took the floor. The ministry stated over the weekend that it was still ready to talk about financing aid to Ukraine.
If Berlin were to cut off financial support, it would “in effect mean that Ukraine is left to its own devices,” Roderich Kiesewetter of the CDU told the Tagesspiegel newspaper. North Rhine-Westphalia’s Prime Minister Hendrik Fuest stressed that Germany must continue to support the Ukrainians. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier also criticized the idea of cutting aid to Ukraine.
to speak Deputy Government Spokesperson Wolfgang Büchner“Germany remains fully committed and the Chancellor’s word still stands that support for Ukraine will continue as long as it is needed, and that no one, especially the Russian president, should hope that we will reduce it,” he added.
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