German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his government accused of insufficient military assistance to Ukraine. The head of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, Friedrich Merz, is convinced that this is the factor that prolongs the war and leads to numerous casualties every day, he told DPA about this..

Germany is not playing any mediating role in this conflict. We, together with Europe, are on the side of Ukraine and therefore cannot be neutral in this matter,"

When asked if his CDU colleague and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel could have put an end to the war, Merz lashed out at the incumbent government led by Olaf Scholz (Social Democratic Party). Merz accused the Scholz government of contributing to the prolongation of the war with its indecisive actions in the supply of heavy weapons..

" The government had to quickly do what the German Bundestag accepted on April 28, namely, to supply heavy equipment on a large scale,"

He developed the theme and added that even now Germany is not doing enough to stop the war in Ukraine..

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" And it continues this brutal war, which is now turning into a war of attrition with hundreds of casualties every day,"

It is worth noting that Friedrich Merz is a consistent critic of the Olaf Scholz government on the issue of supplying weapons to Ukraine..

Earlier it was reported that Scholz was against a complete ban on the entry of Russian citizens into the EU countries.. A number of EU member states support the suspension of issuing visas to Russians, but there will most likely be no consensus at the next ministerial meeting.