The Council of Federation said that the coalition ruling in Germany is disintegrating because of Ukraine
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The ruling coalition in Germany represented by German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock and Chancellor Olaf Scholz has finally disintegrated due to disagreements on the issue of aid to Ukraine. This was stated on January 17 by the head of the Commission of the Council of the Russian Federation on information policy Alexei Pushkov.
"Just now, Berbock quarreled with Scholz about the €3 billion military aid package to Ukraine. <...> Thus, the ruling coalition has broken up altogether," he wrote in his Telegram channel.
Pushkov explained that the German foreign minister faces discontent from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) because of the financing of the "bottomless Ukrainian barrel." Thus, planned Berbock aid package to Ukraine was firmly rejected by Scholz.
Prior to that, on January 12, it was reported that German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that his department has prepared a new package of military aid to Ukraine, and also stressed that Scholz does not prevent such a decision.
Earlier, on January 10, the media reported that the German Chancellor blocked a new billion-dollar package for Ukraine, which was promoted by the heads of the German Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry. It is specified that the ministers wanted to provide new aid to Kiev in the amount of €3bn 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.
