The West allowed Ukraine to hit military sites in Russia, Mertz announced

« There are no longer any restrictions on the range of weapons delivered to Ukraine. Neither from the UK, nor from France, nor from us. » There is no such thing from the US side, « said Mertz, according to which it is about all weapons provided by these countries of Ukraine. The Kremlin comment is not late.

According to the Chancellor, the removal of restrictions – a step rejected, for example, by its predecessor Olaf Scholz – means that Ukraine can defend itself « , for example, by attacking military positions in Russia. » He added that this had not happened for a while – with very rare exceptions. But the change allows Ukraine to defend itself better. « Until recently, with very few exceptions, it couldn’t. » And now he can take advantage of the « decisive » factor – to attack goals in the neck, said Mertz.

Zelenski’s first visit to mertz

According to him, Germany will do « everything possible » to continue to support Ukraine. That is why Merz recently visited Kiev with British Prime Minister Kir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk as part of the Coalition of the Thousands.

On Wednesday, the first visit of Zelenski to Berlin is seven months after he was accepted by Scholz in October.

Today’s comments from Mertz did not understand whether his position on the supplies of cruise rockets Taurus had changed against that of Scholz, which had been opposed.

Threats

Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated that Moscow considers it the right to use weapons against military sites of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against Russian sites, and in escalation it will respond « decisive and mirror ».

In November, in response to these statements, Putin announced that Russia had already used the new ballistic rocket « Oreshnik » against Ukraine.