Contents tagged with Germany
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Head of German Navy: Putin deserves our respect
Ukraine will not be able to take the annexed Crimea back, and Russian President Vladimir Putin "may deserve respect," said the Chief of German Navy, Vice Admiral, Kay-Achim Schönbach, during a discussion at the Indian Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses.
"The Crimean Peninsula is lost. It cannot be returned. That's a fact. And we need to understand that political issues are matters of facts and emotions," Schönbach said.
He believes that Russia does not really want to …
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Estonia asks Berlin for permission to send German made howitzers to Ukraine
Estonia has asked Germany to approve the transfer to Ukraine of 122-mm howitzers produced in the German Democratic Republic, reports Deutsche Welle, citing the press secretary of the German Defense Ministry.
According to her, the request is being studied and is "under departmental review". The process must be coordinated with Finland, because it was to this country that howitzers were initially sold in the 1990s.
In 2021, Estonian Ministry of Defense decided to provide weapons and ammunition …
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Green party representative to head Nord Stream 2 certification in Germany
The German Federal Network Agency, which is responsible for certification of Nord Stream 2 pipeline, will be undergoing a leadership change. On March 1, 2022, a former Greens politician Klaus Müller will take over the Federal Network Agency in Bonn (Bundesnetzagentur, BNetzA), reported the German newspaper Handelsblatt .
The current head of the agency, Jochen Hohmann, after ten years in this position, was not eligible for a new term and is retiring at the age of 68.
At the same time, one of …
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Latvia intends to supply weapons to Ukraine
Amid growing threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, Latvia will provide Kyiv with military equipment. Riga is ready to "supply lethal and non-lethal products" to Kyiv, said Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks at a press conference in the Latvian capital on Wednesday, January 19. What kind of weapons Ukraine will receive will be made public only after their delivery. At the same time, Latvia is not considering the possibility of sending its servicemen to Ukraine, Pabriks said.
Pabriks …
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U.S. and Europe abandon the idea of disconnecting Russia from SWIFT
The United States and the European Union abandoned the idea of disconnecting Russia from the SWIFT interbank payment system as part of a package of sanctions for aggression against Ukraine, Handelsblatt reports, citing sources in the German government.
The initiative, which was first launched back in 2014 after Russia's annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas, is again considered too risky. This step could destabilize the global financial system and provoke the development of an alternative …
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Germany: disconnecting Russia from SWIFT will have a nuclear bomb effect on world markets
The future chairman of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz, said he believes that restricting Russia's access to the international interbank SWIFT system will have a "nuclear bomb" effect on the world markets.
"Loss of confidence in the SWIFT system could be like an atomic bomb for the capital markets, as well as goods and services markets," the DPA news agency quoted Merz as saying. "I foresee a massive economic downturn in our economies if something like this happens. …
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Kyiv calls on new German government to unblock weapons supplies to Ukraine
Ukraine calls on the new German government to immediately provide Kyiv with defensive weapons to protect itself against Russia, said Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk in an interview with the newspaper Berliner Morgenpost.
"Ukraine demands that the new German government abandon the morally false policy of blocking weapons supplies and immediately provide Kyiv with defensive weapons to protect itself against the Russian Federation. Berlin bears the same historical responsibility to …
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German Ambassador: Russia’s attack on Ukraine is unlikely
German Ambassador to Ukraine Anka Feldhusen considers a large-scale military operation by Russia against Ukraine unlikely.
"Clear words of European politicians and timely coordination sent the right signals in Moscow’s direction. In recent weeks, we have also not seen a significant buildup of troops on Russia's border with Ukraine. Therefore, I consider it unlikely that a large-scale attack by Russia is possible," Feldhusen wrote in her address to German citizens living in Ukraine, Deutsche …
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German Vice-Chancellor: Construction of Nord Stream 2 was a mistake
The construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was a mistake from a geopolitical point of view, said the Vice-Chancellor of Germany, Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck, in an interview with the newspaper FAZ.
When asked whether the transition to renewable energy would lead to dependence on Russian gas and the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Habeck said: "All European countries, except Germany and Austria, have always been against it. And now the gas pipeline has …
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Russia stops delivery of gas to Europe via Poland
Russia continues to tighten the gas noose around the neck of the European Union, stopping again its key export gas pipeline.
Starting Friday, December 17, the Russian gas conglomerate Gazprom will stop gas delivery through the Yamal-Europe pipeline, which supplies consumers in Germany through Belarus and Poland.
The auction held on Thursday for the gas delivery for a day ahead ended in vain: Gazprom refused to book any transit capacity, Interfax reports.
During the previous two weeks, Yamal- …