The German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has sharply rejected SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich’s plans to “freeze” the war in Ukraine. “There is nothing to freeze. There is something to end,” the Green politician told the newspapers of the Funke media group.

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1. *Translation*

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   “If Putin stops today, the war is over. If Ukraine stops defending itself today, Ukraine is over.” The war was “virtually frozen” after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. However, the Minsk Agreement did not bring peace as hoped, but gave Russian President Vladimir Putin time to “prepare his neo-imperial plan and the most brutal attack on the European peace order in decades”, she said. “And unlike before February 24, 2022, Putin is not standing still, even though we, together with half the world, have been trying for two years to convince him by all diplomatic means to withdraw his troops.” The bombings, rapes and abductions of children continued on a daily basis.

   Baerbock also spoke out against statements by Pope Francis, who had urged Kyiv to “raise the white flag”. Anyone who fails to recognize that Russia is waging a brutal war of aggression against Ukraine is not strengthening peace and international law, but the law of the strongest. If Ukraine can no longer defend itself “because we are not supplying it with enough weapons, Putin’s troops will be standing on the Ukrainian-Polish border tomorrow – just an eight-hour drive from Berlin”, said the Minister. “Ukraine also secures our peace. And we must protect this peace not only until the next election, but also in the long term – for the future of our children.”

2. This girl has more guts than most of German politicians combined.

3. SPD is compromised