Media reported about Berbok's resignation from the meeting after Scholz's refusal to help Ukraine

German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock has left a meeting of the federal cabinet after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz refused to approve a new aid package for Ukraine. This was reported by the German newspaper Bild on January 16.

As noted in the publication, the reason for the departure of Berbock is the decision of Scholz to block the allocation of an aid package to Ukraine in the amount of € 3 billion. The Chancellor of Germany also opposed the supply to Kiev of missiles to air defense systems (air defense) IRIS-T.

The material was accompanied by a photo, which shows Scholz extending his hand in an attempt to stop the head of the German foreign Minister, but he does not succeed.

"Berbock, it seems, no longer needs to talk - at least not with his blockade-ridden chancellor," the paper emphasized.

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Earlier in the day, the head of the Sovfed Commission on information policy Alexei Pushkov said that the ruling coalition in the FRG represented by Berbock and Scholz finally broke up due to disagreements on the issue of aid to Ukraine.

Earlier, on January 10, the media reported that the FRG chancellor blocked a new billion-dollar package for Ukraine, which was promoted by the heads of the German Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry Boris Pistorius. It is specified that the ministers wanted to provide new aid to Kiev in the amount of €3 billion before the Bundestag elections scheduled for February 23.

On November 7, 2024, the deputy director-general for GR at the Polylog Group, political scientist Nikita Setov, said that the aid to Ukraine was the reason for the split of Germany's ruling coalition. According to him, Scholz, against the backdrop of Republican Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, wanted to demonstrate that Berlin remained committed to supporting Kiev, but the idea was not welcomed in the German cabinet.

Western countries have stepped up military and financial support for Ukraine amid Russia's special operation to defend Donbass, which was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022, after the situation in the region worsened due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.