Today at 20:00
Michael Roth, chairman of the Bundestag’s foreign affairs committee and a Social Democrat, criticized the approach of the coalition, which includes his own party, to further funding for aid to Ukraine.
Die Zeit quoted him as saying.
The MP called it a “fatal signal” from the federal government towards Ukraine “if no further funds for new military aid are planned in the upcoming federal budgets”.
Roth noted that the Ukrainian army is back on the offensive for the first time in many months, and the country now needs the full support of its most important military ally in Europe, – Germany.
“Instead, the debate about the future funding of military aid looks like a veiled abdication of responsibility from Germany. We cannot make our security dependent on budgetary constraints,” he said.
The government’s draft federal budget for 2025, approved by the cabinet in July, allocated approximately four billion euros for aid to Ukraine, and this amount is not expected to change after the new budget compromise agreed on Friday.
The German government expects that Ukraine will be able to receive more support in the future through interest from frozen Russian state assets.
Roth emphasized that the $50 billion from the G7 bailout fund, which is also to be filled with interest from frozen assets, is “far from enough.”
Read also: Occupiers will not reduce pressure at the Pokrovsk direction – analyst’s arguments
