Ukraine war: special session in the Bundestag – Weidel sees “the problem” in Kiev

In a special session, the Bundestag discusses the Ukraine conflict. In advance, AfD politician Alice Weidel blames Ukraine for the escalation.

• Russia* launches an invasion of the Ukraine*. The capital Kiev is hard fought for.
• In dealing with that Ukraine conflict* submits to the federal government Olaf Scholz* (SPD*) a U-turn and now agrees to the Swift exclusion of Russia and arms deliveries.
• For Alice Weidel, leader of the parliamentary group AfD* in the Bundestag, responsibility for the war does not lie with Russia’s president Wladimir Putin*, but with Ukraine and Western politics.
• From 11 a.m. Olaf Scholz will be im Bundestag* talk about the current situation in Ukraine. A debate will follow. All news from Berlin in our live ticker.

+++ 10.04 a.m.: Before the special session of the Bundestag on the Ukraine war FDP-Group leader* Christian Dürr contradicted the impression that it was only the pressure from international partners that made Germany give in to the arms deliveries to Ukraine and Russia’s Swift exclusion. In the past few weeks it has been said that everything is on the table, Dürr explained in the ARD morning magazine. That affects the gas pipeline North Stream 2* same as Swift.

Ukraine war: parties make positions clear before special session of the Bundestag

SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich has backed the arms deliveries. The step was necessary against the background “that the Ukrainian armed forces and obviously many volunteers want to oppose the attack by the Russian army, the armed forces,” said Mützenich on Sunday in the ARD morning magazine. Vladimir Putin has slammed the door to diplomacy and is banking on a war of aggression and annihilation, he explained greens-Boss* Ricarda Lang in the ARD. “In this situation, Ukraine has a right to self-defense,” Lang explains the arms deliveries.

Armament and militarization are still not the right path, explained Linken co-boss Amira Mohamed Ali in the ARD morning program before the special session of the Bundestag on the Ukraine conflict. Sanctions against Russia and especially against the leadership in Moscow are reasonable. Mohamed Ali admitted the left* overestimated Putin’s rationality. “We didn’t expect him to start this war of aggression.”

Ukraine war: special session in the Bundestag – Weidel causes excitement

First report from Sunday, February 27th, 2022, 9.30 a.m.: Berlin – After the sanctions imposed by the West against Russia and the U-turn by the federal government on arms deliveries to Ukraine on Saturday (February 26, 2022), Chancellor Olaf Scholz will make a government statement in the Bundestag on Sunday (February 27, 2022). In a 30-minute speech, he will also inform MPs about the current situation in the Ukraine conflict. A two-hour debate will follow.

To support Ukraine in the war against Russia, Germany now wants to deliver weapons from Bundeswehr stocks to Ukraine, which is being attacked by Russia. Deliver 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 Stinger surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine as soon as possible. In addition, the exclusion of numerous Russian banks from the Swift banking communications network is said to have a financial impact on Vladimir Putin’s government.

While Western states and numerous German politicians are showing solidarity with Ukraine after the Russian attack and want to support it in the fight, AfD parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel proposes before the Bundestag debate on the Ukraine conflict.

Alice Weidel: “The problem was Ukraine”

Although Weidel criticizes the Russian attack on Ukraine as violating international law, he sees the problem in Ukraine and the West, which failed to ensure Kiev’s neutrality at an early stage. The AfD would have wished that there had been timely efforts to “put Ukraine and all other neighboring countries on a neutral status and not continue to push the borders of the Nato-Eastern expansion* to be postponed,” explained Weidel on Sunday morning (February 27, 2022) in the ARD– Morning Magazine*.

Asked whether a pledge of neutrality could have dissuaded Russian President Vladimir Putin from attacking, Weidel said the Russians had been articulating the issue clearly for years. Weidel referred to the USA* who also would not tolerate any hostile power “in their backyard”. Today there is the “problem of Russian insults as to why this war of aggression came about in the first place”. Weidel said clearly: “The problem was Ukraine. The problem of the lack of neutrality status, and we slept through that.” (ms with dpa) *fr.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.