BERLIN – Vladimir Putin should not be offered a “face-saving solution” to the war in Ukraine, a leading figure in Germany’s opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has said. Criticising Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Jürgen Hardt, the CDU’s foreign affairs spokesperson, told the New Statesman that Germany should be going further on weapons deliveries to Ukraine.
In April, Germany reversed its long-standing policy, begun under the former CDU chancellor Angela Merkel, of not sending heavy weapons to Ukraine. “This year,” said Hardt, “we saw that [Germany’s] strategy of de-escalating the conflict by not arming the Ukrainian armed forces failed.”
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