Ukraine will never be able to defeat Russia; kyiv’s allies are helping it not lose the war. This was stated in an interview with Bild by the leader of the main German opposition party, the CDU, Friedrich Merz.
This is how he answered the question of whether Ukraine should win the war.
“Ukraine will never be able to defeat Russia, that was never the goal. But for me, victory means: you must restore sovereignty over your territory. And Russia must stop attacking this country. We must do everything possible to make Russia consider the continuation of the war hopeless.” – said Merz, quoted by Strana.
However, kyiv’s allies are “quite far from this,” the German politician admitted.
As the Telegram channel “DW” previously wrote* the main thing”, former chancellor of Germany. Angela Merkel He wished success to Friedrich Merz, who recently became a candidate for chancellor of Germany for the opposition CDU/CSU bloc.
“Merz has been Merkel’s main political rival for many years and since 2022 he has headed the conservative Christian Democratic Union, which was previously chaired by Merkel,” TK recalled.
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