Anastasia Gorbacheva16:56, 05/26/24

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The Chancellor of Germany said that the main task is to prevent the war in Ukraine from turning into a “big war”.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sees no reason to expand the area of ​​deployment of Western weapons in Ukraine. He rejected calls to use the supplied weapons on the territory of Russia .

“There are clear rules for the supply of German weapons, which have been agreed with Ukraine and which are working,” Tagesschau quoted Scholz as saying . “At least that’s my thesis.”

According to him, the goal of his policy towards Ukraine is to “prevent the war in Ukraine from turning into a “big war”. The German politician noted that Berlin has so far made the supply of weapons to Ukraine dependent on the fact that it does not cross the Russian border.

Ban on strikes against the Russian Federation – Ukraine wants freedom

Since the first deliveries of Western weapons to Ukraine, there has been a ban on their use for strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation. However, according to the NYT , the consensus around this issue is falling apart – in the Biden administration, there is an ongoing debate on relaxing the ban.

This ban was criticized even by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, who blocked military aid to Ukraine for six months. According to him , attempts to control Ukraine’s efforts “at the micro level” are “not a very good policy” for the United States.

For his part, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Ukraine’s partner countries should cancel the ban on the use of their weapons to strike targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.

(C)UNIAN 2024