The war that Russian President Vladimir Putin is waging against Ukraine is also “a war against the unity of Europe,” German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier criticized on Sunday.
“The war that Putin is waging against Ukraine is also a war against the unity of Europe. We must not allow them to divide us, we must not allow the great work of a united Europe that we have begun to destroy to be destroyed. promising,” he said during a speech in Paderborn.
“Accept sensible inconveniences”
But upholding these values and attesting to them also means being willing to “accept significant disadvantages”, the German president stressed, without elaborating on the disadvantages in question.
“Are we ready for this? We all face this question, today and in the days, weeks and months to come,” he said.
“Russia is not content with questioning the borders, it is not content with occupying the territories of a neighboring independent and sovereign state, it even goes so far as to question the state character of Ukraine,” he also charged.
Source: BFM TV
