Roughly 5.6 million Ukrainian refugees remain abroad after fleeing Russia’s full-scale invasion, according to U.N. data<\/a>. The largest number, around 1.2 million, reside in Germany, a country that has provided extensive military, economic, and humanitarian support to Kyiv.<\/p>\n The AfD, a radical party that saw a surge in popularity in recent months, has consistently criticized Berlin’s pro-Ukraine policy, speaking out against the provision of arms and other support to the war-torn country.<\/p>\n The nationalist party has been classified as “extremist<\/a>” by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, and its members have been under investigation<\/a> for ties to Russian and Chinese espionage networks.<\/p>\n Chrupalla’s co-chair in the AfD party, Alice Weidel<\/a>, also criticized social benefits for Ukrainain refugees, saying on Aug. 7 that B\u00fcrgergeld payments for Ukrainians should be abolished and replaced with lower-level payments for asylum seekers.<\/p>\n In the ZDF interview, Chrupalla urged a quick end to the war in Ukraine, adding that there might be no alternatives to Kyiv ceding territory for the sake of peace.<\/p>\n Describing Ukraine’s partially occupied eastern Donbas region as composed of “primarily pro-Russian areas,” the far-right leader also noted that “over 3 million Ukrainians have fled to Russia.”<\/p>\n At least 2.8 million Ukrainians<\/a> are believed to have left for Russia in the wake of the full-scale war, including those forcibly deported, lacking other routes of escape due to hostilities, or those with family or other ties in Russia.<\/p>\n “Do we really believe that we can defeat the world’s largest nuclear power and, what’s more, win this war, which is not ours?” Chrupalla said.<\/p>\n The comments come ahead of a high-level summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15, as Trump signaled the Kremlin is interested in “swapping” land as part of a ceasefire deal.<\/p>\n A source in Ukraine’s Presidential Office told the Kyiv Independent<\/a> that Moscow’s demands include Kyiv’s full withdrawal from two of the partly occupied Ukrainian regions \u2014 Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.<\/p>\n It remains unclear whether President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a>, who has already rejected any territorial concessions to Russia, will be invited to the meeting.<\/p>\n