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10-05-2025
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Germany to Send More Weapons to Ukraine
Israa Farhan Ukraine's ambassador to Germany, Oleksii Makeiev, has expressed confidence that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will pledge fresh military aid during his visit to Kyiv on Saturday. The visit comes as Merz arrives in the Ukrainian capital alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, in a show of coordinated Western support. While Makeiev did not elaborate on the expected shipment details, he stated he is confident that Germany will continue to back Ukraine militarily. The German government, now under conservative leadership, reportedly plans to maintain a high level of confidentiality regarding the specifics of its arms deliveries to Ukraine. This visit marks a critical moment for Kyiv, which has repeatedly called for sustained and increased military assistance from its European allies amid ongoing conflict. The anticipated pledge from Germany would reinforce its commitment to Ukraine's defence, even as Berlin faces growing domestic and international scrutiny over the transparency of its support. read more Gold prices rise, 21 Karat at EGP 3685 NATO's Role in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict US Expresses 'Strong Opposition' to New Turkish Military Operation in Syria Shoukry Meets Director-General of FAO Lavrov: confrontation bet. nuclear powers must be avoided News Iran Summons French Ambassador over Foreign Minister Remarks News Aboul Gheit Condemns Israeli Escalation in West Bank News Greek PM: Athens Plays Key Role in Improving Energy Security in Region News One Person Injured in Explosion at Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid News Egypt confirms denial of airspace access to US B-52 bombers Lifestyle Pistachio and Raspberry Cheesecake Domes Recipe News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia News Australia Fines Telegram $600,000 Over Terrorism, Child Abuse Content Arts & Culture Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's $4.7M LA Home Burglarized Sports Former Al Zamalek Player Ibrahim Shika Passes away after Long Battle with Cancer Videos & Features Bouchra Dahlab Crowned Miss Arab World 2025 .. Reem Ganzoury Wins Miss Arab Africa Title (VIDEO) Sports Neymar Announced for Brazil's Preliminary List for 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers News Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly Inaugurates Two Indian Companies Arts & Culture New Archaeological Discovery from 26th Dynasty Uncovered in Karnak Temple
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Politics
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Ukraine counting on new German arms supplies as leaders meet in Kiev
Ukraine's ambassador to Germany, Oleksii Makeiev, expects Chancellor Friedrich Merz to commit to sending new German arms shipments to the embattled country during his visit to Kiev on Saturday. "I am sure of it," said the ambassador in response to a question after Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk arrived in Ukraine's capital. He did not elaborate. The new conservative-led government in Berlin intends to keep German arms deliveries to Ukraine largely secret, according to informed circles. The main aim is to "deny military advantages to the aggressor in the Ukraine war," a government source said on Friday evening. Merz, Macron, Starmer and Tusk met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday morning to underscore their support for Kiev and push for an unconditional 30-day ceasefire in the conflict with Russia. Makeiev reiterated that unlike Moscow, Kiev was ready for such a pause in fighting, which was initially proposed by US President Donald Trump. "We very much hope that we will enter into these negotiations from a position of strength," he said, expressing confidence that German-Ukrainian relations would be further expanded. "I sense that the German-Ukrainian partnership with the federal government, the new federal government, will be raised to a whole new level." During their stay in Kiev, the European leaders are also set to commemorate the victims of the full-scale Russian invasion that began in February 2022.
Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Politics
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Ukraine ambassador backs German decision to classify AfD as extremist
Ukraine's ambassador to Germany, Oleksii Makeiev, has come out in favour of the domestic intelligence agency's designation of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a confirmed "right-wing extremist" organization. While as a diplomat, he respects all Germany's domestic decisions, the decision by the domestic intelligence agency regarding the AfD "deserves particular respect," Makeiev told dpa on Saturday. He expressed concern at the fact that the AfD does not "clearly condemn the brutal Russian war of aggression" and instead seeks friendship with Russia. "Russians rape, torture and murder. The AfD plays down, relativizes and denies this," he said. His comments come after Germany's domestic intelligence service (BfV) determined in a lengthy report that there was now concrete evidence that the anti-immigrant AfD party pursued efforts that threaten Germany's democratic order and that its understanding of the German nation as based on ethnicity and descent was incompatible with Germany's free democratic order. The BfV is tasked not only with counter-espionage and investigating terrorist activities, but also with identifying and naming groups that oppose the democratic order - principles that include human dignity, democracy and the rule of law. Debate over ban The BfV's move to designate the far-right party as extremist has reignited debate in Germany about whether to ban the AfD. State interior ministers are set to discuss the designation and its implications at their next conference in June. Specifically, they plan to weigh possible consequences for AfD members in the civil service, state party funding and a possible AfD ban, according to Ulrich Mäurer, Bremen's interior senator, who is chairing the meeting. The interior ministers of Germany's 16 states hold different views on a possible ban of the party, according to some of the comments made to the media on Saturday. Thuringia's interior minister, Georg Maier, said "initiating a ban procedure is the logical consequence of this decision and must now be tackled consistently as the next step," in comments to the Bild newspaper. But his counterpart in Hamburg, Andy Grote, said a court would need to confirm the designation first - though warned this would not be sufficient as a precondition to issue a ban. Such discussions are premature in the view of Felor Badenberg, justice senator in the city of Berlin and a former vice-president of the BfV. Badenberg said she expected the AfD to take legal action against the designation, which has implications for how the party is monitored by the intelligence services. Speaking to national public radio Deutschlandfunk, she noted that this could drag on for years. Politicians should start considering the issue only after the courts had ruled on the designation, Badenberg said. The AfD has charged that the BfV's decision is not based on evidence. Germany's Constitutional Court has been reluctant to ban political parties in the past. After banning two communist parties in the 1950s, the court ruled in 2017 against banning the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). An earlier attempt to ban the party was dropped on procedural grounds in 2003. Calls for clarity Looking ahead, the police union (GdP) called for a unified approach nationwide. The chairman for the federal police, Andreas Roßkopf, told the Rheinische Post newspaper that the federal states and the federal government must agree on a common approach. "No procedures have yet been issued from the Interior Ministry or the leadership of the federal police," Roßkopf said. US administration keeping close eye on Germany Berlin's Badenberg rejected criticism of the BfV decision from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said on Friday: "Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That's not democracy - it's tyranny in disguise." She told Deutschlandfunk that she could see nothing anti-democratic in the BfV designation. Noting that the AfD had taken second place in the February elections, Rubio said it was the German establishment that was extremist in backing an open-border immigration policy that the AfD vehemently opposes. He called on Germany to "reverse course." Immigration was a key issue in the elections in February that will return the conservative Christian Democrats to power at the head of a coalition government next week. The leader of a German populist party on Saturday also slammed the BfV's decision as "authoritarian." The outgoing government has done German democracy a serious disservice, said Sahra Wagenknecht, who heads a breakaway faction of The Left party called the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW).
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Politics
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Ukraine welcomes Bundestag's decision not to invite Russian and Belarusian ambassadors to solemn session
Ukraine's Ambassador to Germany, Oleksii Makeiev, has welcomed the Bundestag's decision not to invite the Russian and Belarusian ambassadors to a special session on 8 May commemorating the end of World War II in 1945. Source: European Pravda, citing German news channel n-tv Details: Makeiev welcomed the Bundestag's decision to exclude representatives of Russia and Belarus from the parliamentary events marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and liberation from Nazism, set to take place on 8 May in Berlin. "This underscores the consistent position of the German Bundestag and the federal government towards representatives of criminal regimes," Makeiev said. "8 May is a day of reconciliation with the past to prevent new wars, not the denial of history to justify them," he added. Background: The Bundestag had earlier announced that the entire diplomatic corps in Berlin, including all ambassadors, had been invited to the commemorative events. However, the representatives of Russia and Belarus were excluded from the invitation. The parliamentary administration cited a recommendation from the Federal Foreign Office as the basis for this decision. Notably, on 16 April, the Russian and Belarusian ambassadors to Berlin, Sergei Nechayev and Andrei Shuplyak, took part in a silent commemoration for those killed during the Battle of the Seelow Heights, despite the recommendation not to invite them. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Politics
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Ukraine welcomes German decision to exclude Russia from WWII event
Ukraine's ambassador to Germany, Oleksii Makeiev, on Thursday welcomed the decision taken by the German parliament to exclude Russia and Belarus from the main commemorative event marking the end of World War II in Berlin. "It underlines the consistent attitude of the German Bundestag and the German government towards representatives of the criminal regime," Makeiev told dpa in Berlin ahead of the event on May 8 to mark 80 years since the end of the war. May 8 was about confronting the past and preventing war, and not about denial of history to justify war, he said. The Bundestag had earlier announced that while the Diplomatic Corps had been invited to its commemorative event, the representatives of Russia and Belarus had been excluded on the advice of the Foreign Office. The Foreign Office has justified its decision to advise against inviting representatives of the two countries to commemorative events on the grounds that Russia could exploit them and "abuse them to link them to its war of aggression against Ukraine." Russian ambassador Sergei Nechayev nevertheless participated on Wednesday in an event on the Seelow Heights to the east of Berlin, where the largest battle of World War II on German territory took place. The battle is believed to have claimed the lives of 33,000 Red Army soldiers, 2,000 Polish soldiers fighting with the Russians and 16,000 German soldiers.
