The Biden administration’s decision to allow Ukraine to fire longer-range U.S. missiles into Russia is now being welcomed by German Foreign Minister Baerbock, of the Greens.
“Words are of no help in this situation in Ukraine,” Baerbock told RBB24-Inforadio in a new interview. She said it was about “not waiting for a (Russian) missile to fly over the border first.”
In addition, her party colleague, Economics Minister Robert Habeck, said he is in favor of supplying German-made Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.
Baerbock stated that some locations hit in Ukraine are often so close to the Russian border that Ukrainian air defenses do not have time to react.
Poland is known to be ardently in favor of more war, but Trump's team has other plans, making Biden's decision a clear attempt to derail peace. https://t.co/nrJ9fC5fxp
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“And now it’s about…. being able to destroy the military launch bases… And that is within the framework of international law, the right to self-defense, and every country would try to do exactly that, to protect its schools, its hospitals so that the children, the people can survive,” she said.
Baerbock said that she and her party “see this in the same way as our Eastern European partners, as the British, as the French and also as the Americans.”
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The meme has been recorded as a “politically motivated right-wing crime.”
On Tuesday, police officers… pic.twitter.com/BGQLSQVBd8