Media learned about disputes about support for Ukraine in the German government
Representatives of German political parties have criticized the possible provision of financial aid to Ukraine in the amount of 3bn euros, the Bild newspaper reported on 19 January.
Members of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Free Democratic Party, the Greens and the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) spoke out against the allocation of funds to Ukraine.
According to the critics, the money should be spent on the needs of FRG citizens.
"We can't give Ukraine anything that we wouldn't have to take away from our pensioners or municipalities," said ruling party Bundestag MP Matthias Mirsch.
Earlier, on January 16, it was reported that German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock left a meeting in the Federal Cabinet after the refusal of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to approve a new aid package for Ukraine.
At the same time, the head of the Security Council's commission on information policy, Aleksey Pushkov, said that the ruling coalition in Germany represented by Berbock and Scholz had finally disintegrated due to disagreements on the issue of aid to Ukraine.
Before that, on January 10, the media reported that the FRG chancellor blocked a new billion-dollar package for Ukraine, which was promoted by Berbock and the head of the German 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 elections to the Bundestag, 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.
