“You are destroying the future of your country,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addressed Russian President Vladimir Putin today with such a phrase, on “you”, speaking at the election rally of the Social Democratic Party in Lubeck, DW reports..

The Chancellor stressed that Western sanctions in connection with the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine are already strongly affecting the economic development of Russia.

Scholz urged Putin to immediately cease fire and withdraw troops from Ukraine.

The German assured the Kremlin that Germany will continue to supply Ukraine with defensive weapons.

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Earlier, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that Putin and the rest of the Russian military leadership should be tried for war crimes in Ukraine..