On Monday, May 2, Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's main opposition party, the Christian Democratic Union, will visit Kyiv.. This is reported by the publication Tagesspiegel, citing sources in the party and the security service of Germany..

CDU leader Friedrich Merz will travel to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Monday. More recently, Greens politician Anton Gofreiter, FDP MP Marie-Agyness Strack-Zimmermann and SPD politician Michael Roth visited Ukraine..

Subsequently, opposition spokesman Jakob Schroth confirmed the travel plans without giving a date: “Friedrich Merz is indeed planning a trip to Ukraine.”.

He added that Germany's support for Ukraine is not a matter of power against the opposition, and Merz wants to listen and accept specific requests for support from Ukrainian interlocutors in Germany in time, which he will subsequently submit to the government..

Recall that Kyiv recently rejected an application for a visit by German Federal President Franco-Walter Steinmeier because of his support for Putin and biased attitude towards Ukraine and at the same time invited Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz to visit Ukraine, who refused the invitation..

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was even threatened with resignation due to an unstable position on the supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine.

In particular, he personally crossed out the heaviest weapons from the supply plans, but said that he would not agree on this..

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