Germany said Russia was a “concrete and immediate threat to European security”

The German Minister of Defense, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, denounced Russia for being a “concrete and immediate” threat to European security.

“The excessive arming of Russia and its war in central europe he created real threats, ”Kramp-Karrenbauer said on Saturday at a conference by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), close to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

“Reporting this is not anti-Russian. To signal this means to attack an important political fact and to take active security measures for our country and for Europe ”, Explain.

Yes indeed, accused Russia of deploying missiles “which can reach Germany in a short time”. “It was done in secret and against current arms control treaties,” he explained.

After trying to hide it, In 2018, Russia confirmed the deployment of Iskander missiles with a range of 500 kilometers in the Kaliningrad enclave, between Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic Sea.

This maneuver was interpreted as a reaction to the deployment of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops to the Baltic States.

In addition, Kramp-Karrenbauer spoke of sending Russian troops to the border with Ukraine. “Russian action, unfortunately, does not build confidence, but is clearly aimed at provoking reactions”, he said. The German minister thus hailed Ukraine’s “sensible” reaction. “With Ukraine, we don’t want to get into the Russian game”added.

Russia defines itself “more and more strongly as a Anti-liberal and anti-democratic antithesis of the WestAnd warned that there are other policy areas subordinate to this Russian strategy.

“The sophisticated cyber attacks, arms exports, covert and overt political influence, assassinations, direct and indirect military involvementThese are some of the tools that Russia uses, ”he stressed.

Friday, the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky have expressed concerns about the reinforcement of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border and they urged Moscow to withdraw.

In a statement from the Chancellery, at the end of the meeting held in Paris by Macron and Zelenski, with the quasi-intervention of Merkel, the French and German leaders also ratified their commitment to “the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine”.

The text emphasizes the need to respect the Minsk peace accords to stop the Ukrainian conflict, as well as in the commitment of Germany and France to resume the so-called Norman Format, that is to say the dialogue between Russia and Ukraine, under the mediation of France and Germany.

Macron received Zelenski at the Elysee Palace and, after a bilateral working lunch, they held a videoconference with Merkel.

With information from EuropaPress and EFE

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