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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
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German authorities conduct raid over suspected support for Russian militants in Donbas
On the morning of Tuesday 27 May, German prosecutors conducted a raid on a house in Brandenburg on suspicion of support for Russian militants in Ukraine's east. Source: German TV news channel n-tv, as reported by European Pravda Details: A spokesperson for the Karlsruhe Prosecutor's Office stated that one of the suspects is accused of organising the transport of goods for several years to the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts occupied by Russia. Law enforcement officials reported that the man is under investigation on suspicion of supporting a foreign terrorist organisation. The property searched is located in the Dahme-Spreewald district. The spokesperson stated that the suspect was not arrested. No information was provided about the specific types of goods supposedly transported. Background: Recently, Politico reported that a German tech company may have exported technology to Russia despite new European Union sanctions imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. In early January 2025, it was also reported that Finland continues to record attempts to export sanctioned goods to Russia, despite having closed the Finnish-Russian border a year earlier. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Politics
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Ukrainian envoy hails Merz for keeping extent of military aid secret
Ukraine's ambassador to Germany has praised the country's new leader for keeping the extent of weapons deliveries for Kiev under wraps, in what is seen as an attempt to create "strategic ambiguity" aimed at leaving Russia in the dark about Ukraine's capabilities. After taking office last week, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz agreed with Defence Minister Boris Pistorius to stop detailed publications of arms deliveries to Ukraine, including exact quantities. Merz's predecessor Olaf Scholz pursued the same practice in the first months of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine launched in February 2022, but his administration later succumbed to public pressure and began publishing a detailed list of the shipments online in June that year. It was last updated on May 6, the day the new government took office in Berlin. Merz, at the time the conservative opposition leader, sharply criticized the practice of keeping the details of arms shipments under wraps. "We are being kept in suspense, there are excuses, there is no precise information about what Germany is actually supplying," he told broadcasters RTL and n-tv at the time, pledging he would "inform the public better" if he was elected chancellor. "A good chess player thinks several moves ahead. What he doesn't do is predict these moves to his opponent," Ambassador Oleksii Makeiev told dpa, welcoming Merz's change of course. Makeiev's predecessor Andriy Melnyk, on the other hand, criticized Merz for his u-turn, calling the approach a "very strange" practice that brought back "bad memories" of Scholz's centre-left administration which Melnyk claimed sought to mask restraint in arms deliveries by secrecy. Melnyk argued that publishing the exact extent of the military aid would send a strong signal to Russia and have a preventative effect.
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
07-03-2025
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Russian receives life sentence in Germany for killing two Ukrainian soldiers
A 58-year-old Russian man who murdered two Ukrainian soldiers in Germany has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Munich. Source: German TV news channel n-tv, as reported by European Pravda Details: The court spokesperson said the severity of the crime is such that the 58-year-old convict is virtually ineligible for early release. Both the Ukrainian soldiers had been receiving treatment for injuries sustained in the war against Russia at a clinic in the Bavarian city of Murnau. At the start of the trial in February, the Russian admitted to killing the Ukrainians, who were aged 36 and 23. The three men knew each other well and often met up to drink together, including on the day of the murder, when they had met in Murnau's town centre. The court heard that an argument broke out, in the course of which the 36-year-old man insulted the Russian. The Russian took a knife and stabbed the older Ukrainian several times in the neck from behind. He then inflicted five stab wounds on the 23-year-old soldier. Background: Reports of two men with serious injuries in Murnau were received around 17:20 on 27 April 2024. One of the men died before paramedics arrived. The second man, who was also seriously injured, died in hospital shortly afterwards. A 57-year-old Russian man suspected of the murder was remanded in custody in Murnau. The German news magazine Spiegel reported that he was in a state of intoxication. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Yahoo
01-03-2025
- Politics
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Zelensky walked into Trump trap, expert says after Oval Office clash
A German political scientist believes that the heated argument between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Voloydmyr Zelensky at the White House was a calculated move by Trump. "That was reality TV star Donald Trump, doing exactly what he does: trashing someone on camera," Thomas Jäger from Cologne University said in an interview with broadcaster n-tv. "That was his trademark for a long time and he had it all planned out," Jäger said, adding that Zelensky had walked into the trap laid out for him. "That's no coincidence, that's no provocation. A manuscript was acted out," the expert said about Friday's meeting which saw Trump and his Vice President JD Vance berate Zelensky in front of rolling cameras. What was intended as an opportunity to discuss security and economic cooperation soon devolved into a shouting match in front of press at the Oval Office. Vance accused Zelensky of not being thankful enough for years of US assistance against Russia's full-scale invasion, while Trump told the Ukrainian president to make a deal with Russia or else face losing US support. "You're gambling with the lives of millions of people," he said, pointing at Zelensky. "You're gambling with World War III." Zelensky, visibly frustrated, tried to explain why he did not believe diplomacy was sufficient to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war, suggesting that the United States would also feel the effects if Ukraine was forced to accept a peace deal on Russia's terms. The talks were cut short and the Ukrainian delegation left the White House briefly afterwards, leaving a planned minerals deal unsigned.
