German Foreign Minister: We should not talk about lifting sanctions on Russia while its forces are still in Ukraine
2 year ago Berlin expels 40 Russian diplomats. The federal government has a "considerable number" of members of the Russian embassy declared undesirable persons
Germany places Gazprom subsidiary temporarily under state control: minister
German @Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz said Western allies would agree on further sanctions on Russia in the coming days over its invasion of Ukraine and the "atrocities" committed by Russian troops in a town near Kyiv
German food retailers to raise prices by 20-50% on Monday, says German Retail Association
Annalena Baerbock, Germany's foreign minister, has accused Russia of "war crimes" over dead civilians bound and dead left on the streets of Bucha
2 year ago German 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 ago Joint 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 ago Following-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