German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Western sanctions against the Russian Federation are effective and correct, and that Europe's only response to the war was able to surprise the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.
This is reported by Magdeburger Volksstimme.
Scholz noted that sanctions are an important means of putting pressure on Russia to end the war.
"The country is cut off from global technological progress. The longer this continues, the more damage will be done to Russia. For me, there is no question of Germany leaving the Western alliance of supporters of Ukraine," said Scholz.
According to him, the strong and unified response of Europe" to this war "surprised Putin". Scholz believes that Putin did not expect this.
It will be recalled that Olaf Scholz said that he supports the expansion of the European Union by including Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia.