2 year agoGerman Foreign Minister @ABaerbock: "Putin is saying every other day that he's having, as he calls it, peace negotiations but he's bombing Mariupol. You can't say on the one hand that you are having peace negotiations and on the other hand, you are bombing hospitals
Germany: The Air Force will benefit most from a defense spending plan worth 100 billion euros
German army reserve officer charged with spying for Russia: prosecutors
Germany will provide an additional 200 million Euro in humanitarian funding for the people in Afghanistan. "But to be clear: our engagement in other fields will depend on the Taliban changing course." - FM @ABaerbock
Putin tells Scholz gas payments can continue in euros: Berlin
German government: The Russian president told the German chancellor that he still plans to enact a law requiring gas supplies to be paid in rubles from early April
Putin told German Chancellor Scholz gas for rubles demand will not mean worse contracts for Europe: Kremlin
EU officials raided the offices of Gazprom's German units as part of a probe into the Russian gas giant's role in pushing prices up in the continent, sources say
Against the background of the Russian war against Ukraine, the German government is preparing for a significant deterioration in gas supplies. Federal Minister of Economics Habeck therefore called the early warning level of the gas emergency plan
.@PentagonPresSec announces 6 E/A-18 Growlers with 240 support staff deployed to Germany. These aircraft specialize in flying electronic warfare missions including jamming enemy sensors. Stresses the deployment is to support NATO operations, not in Ukraine
There were several demonstrations in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin-Mitte on Sunday. From the late afternoon, many of the demonstrators followed a live stream of a benefit concert for Ukraine at the Brandenburg Gate
Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, blocked the websites of the German outlet Bild and journalist Alexander Nevzorov in Russia
German Foreign Ministry: We strongly condemn the attacks on civilian infrastructure in Saudi Arabia
Germany sent 1500 Strela air defense missiles and 100 MG3 machine guns to Ukraine. And then 8 million small arms ammunition. 350,000 packages of food, 50 vehicles for medical transport and material for medical treatment were also sent
The Federal Minister of Economics wants to make Germany independent of Russian energy supplies as quickly as possible. But he urgently warns of the dangers that Ukraine war means for local supplies
German Chancellor: We will break free from dependence on Russian gas sooner than many think
There were also numerous FridaysForFuture demonstrations against climate change in Brandenburg
Russia's demand for gas payment in rubles a 'breach of contract': Germany
DPA: The German Defense Minister submitted a request to the Federal Security Council to supply 2,000 anti-tank missiles to Ukraine
The Kremlin: Putin and Scholz discussed the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations by phone
2 year agoJoint statement on Kosovo issued by France, Germany, Italy, UK and US
Germany says further supplies of Strela missiles are on their way to Ukraine following delays. The missiles had been in the inventories of the former Communist East German army
.@OlafScholz: "Putin has stopped thinking about the future of Russia"
2 year agoFollowing-up yesterday's EU Foreign Affairs Council in a VTC within the WeimarTriangle: FMs @ABaerbock, @JY_LeDrian and @RauZbigniew discussed intensively, among others, further sanctions and coordinated distribution of refugees from the war in Ukraine
2 year agoPresident Biden had a call with the leaders of UK, France, Germany and Italy from 11:14 am ET to 12:12 pm ET, according to the @WhiteHouse
German Economy Minister: We are worried about gas supplies next winter if Russia cuts supplies
In another phone call with President Putin on the war in Ukraine, Chancellor Scholz called for a quick ceasefire, a rapid improvement in the humanitarian situation and progress in finding a diplomatic solution
2 year agoPutin's war of aggression is aimed at the Ukrainians' will for freedom and thus also against our values and European freedom. We as NATO have to take this threat seriously and adjust our security measures accordingly. - @ABaerbock in a press conference with @jensstoltenberg
Allegedly, thousands of foreigners want to take part in the war against the Kremlin troops. But only those who join the Ukrainian armed forces do so legally, says Justice Minister Marco Buschmann
Ukraine's president on Thursday said Russia was building a new Cold War wall across Europe "between freedom and bondage"
