Germany plans to change its ambassador to Russia. It is reported by SPIEGEL, citing sources in the traffic light coalition in Berlin..

Changes will take place next summer, Alexander Graf Lambsdorf can head the country's diplomatic department in Russia.

Since 2019 this post has been occupied by Geza Andreas von Geyr.

Prior to this, the media speculated that Lambsdorff could head the diplomatic mission to the United States, but Andreas Michaelis, State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office and former German ambassador in London, can claim the position..

Lambsdorff is considered one of the most experienced traffic light politicians..

In 1997-1998 he worked at the headquarters of the Federal Foreign Office under the then Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel.

From 2000 to 2003, Lambsdorff worked at the German Embassy in Washington, after which he temporarily served as Russia's representative at the Federal Foreign Office.. From 2004 to 2017, the politician was a member of the European Parliament, and from 2014 to 2017 - its vice-president. Lambsdorff has been a member of the Bundestag since 2017 and is deputy head of the FDP parliamentary group (Liberal Free Democratic Party of Germany).

The politician has repeatedly sharply condemned Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine and stated that he does not yet believe in the possibility of a purely diplomatic solution..

In April, in a televised debate, Lambsdorf said that the resolution of the conflict would, first of all, be military.. He confirmed this point of view in September, when he said that Germany should provide military support to Ukraine until negotiations on equal terms take place..

In April, he also criticized the pro-pacifists.

“They spit in the face of the defenders of Kyiv and Kharkov with calls for disarmament and offers of non-military support to Ukraine,” he wrote..

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Recall that despite the request of Ukraine, Germany does not yet plan to transfer Leopard tanks to Ukraine.

As reported, the German opposition party Christian Social Union appealed to the federal government of their state with an appeal to provide Ukraine with Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems after the announcement of such assistance from the United States of America..

Earlier, a representative of the German government said that Germany has no fundamental reasons to oppose the provision of Patriot to Ukraine, but so far the state does not have such systems for sending.