Habeck calls for Ukraine to join the EU quickly
2:42 p.m.: Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck is in favor of Ukraine quickly joining the EU. The process must be accelerated and it shouldn’t always just be a debate, said the Economics Minister in Berlin, according to the text of his speech, at an event to mark the 20th anniversary of the EU’s eastward expansion. The next round of expansion will bring further prosperity and also more security. “We need to significantly strengthen our military capabilities, together with the EU and NATO.”
The Eastern European EU states in particular are exposed to a real danger of a Russian attack, added the Green politician. Russia’s attack on Ukraine brought a lot of suffering. “People die there every day and there is no end in sight.” Russian President Vladimir Putin must not win the war in Ukraine, otherwise he will continue.
Zelensky: Ukraine is fighting the new evil
2:05 p.m.: On the anniversary of the end of the World War in 1945, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky placed the current defensive battle against Russia in the tradition of the victory over Hitler’s Germany. The head of state visits the town of Yahidne in the Chernihiv region of northern Ukraine, the scene of an alleged Russian war crime in 2022.
“80 years ago, millions of Ukrainians fought to defeat Nazism forever,” he says in a video message recorded there. “But today Ukrainians are once again standing against the evil that has been reborn, has come back and wants to destroy us again.”
Russia outraged by recall of German ambassador
11.15 a.m.: The Russian Foreign Ministry expresses outrage over the recall of the German ambassador to Moscow, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff. This was an “unfriendly act” that further deteriorated bilateral relations. The Foreign Office summoned Count Lambsdorff to Berlin on Monday, officially to investigate suspected Russian hacker attacks on targets in Germany. The Moscow Foreign Ministry says this is just a pretext. The federal government wants to use this “myth” to further escalate tensions between the two countries.
Poland: Border guards arrest Russian soldiers
10:26 a.m.: Polish border guards have arrested a Russian soldier who deserted in the border area with Belarus. The 41-year-old crossed the Belarusian-Polish border illegally with a group of migrants and was caught on Polish territory, a spokeswoman for the authority said.
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