{"id":1181857,"date":"2025-07-09T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1181857"},"modified":"2025-07-09T16:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:16:31","slug":"german-chancellor-merz-diplomatic-means-are-exhausted-support-for-ukraine-will-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/german-chancellor-merz-diplomatic-means-are-exhausted-support-for-ukraine-will-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Merz: Diplomatic Means Are Exhausted, Support for Ukraine Will Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has promised further support for Ukraine.<br>He said this during a debate on the budget in the Bundestag, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jul\/09\/europe-latest-news-updates-russia-ukraine-war-putin-zelenskyy-macron-starmer\">The Guardian<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merz promised to continue to support Ukraine \u2018even despite the pressure of the left and pro-Russian right in this parliament\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking about Russia, he expressed concern that \u2018diplomacy\u2019 to end the war in Ukraine has been \u201cexhausted\u201d, adding: \u2018When a criminal regime openly questions another country&#8217;s right to exist through military force and intends to destroy the political order of freedom on the entire European continent, the federal government I lead will do everything in its power to prevent this.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Separately, he also said that the German army, the Bundeswehr, \u2018must quickly get everything it needs to defend Germany\u2019, announcing plans to speed up defence procurement procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported earlier, Berlin is holding intensive consultations with partners, including the United States, on how to strengthen Ukraine&#8217;s air defence against the backdrop of Russia&#8217;s air attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has promised further support for Ukraine.He said this &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1181858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36418,36415],"tags":[76,78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1181857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en-2","category-11473-news-en","tag-glavnoe-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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