War in Ukraine: “Merz will not take nobody in the Kremlin for months,” the left boss etches | EUROtoday

Jan van Aken, head of the Left Party, sees it as a “huge error” that Chancellor Friedrich Merz ‘risk with sanctions in opposition to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin didn’t comply with any deeds within the occasion of an absence of ceasefire. “That was all just talk,” mentioned Van Aken in an interview with Welt TV. “That means Merz put a real start and then he ran fully against the wall. I think that in the Kremlin nobody will take it seriously for months. He can say sanctions five times and nobody believes him.”

Van Aken additionally practiced sharp criticism of the earlier EU sanction packages, which in his view don’t work. “You finally have to go to the shadow anchor fleet that drives the illegal Russian oil through the Baltic Sea. You have to go to this liquefied gas. We are still buying gas from Russia at the moment. We finance the war in Ukraine.”

Although Western states have imposed financial and monetary pressured measures in opposition to Russia in a number of steps, the Kremlin has to date continued the battle unabated. Thanks to the booming armaments trade, the Russian economic system generally reveals greater development charges than these of the EU nations.

The EU imposed additional sanctions in opposition to Russia on Tuesday. The new measures aimed on the provide chains of Russian weapon methods corresponding to Icelandic missiles, info operations and monetary establishments funded by the Kremlin, which assist Russia to bypass sanctions. Ships of the so-called shadow fleet of Russian oil tankers are additionally affected, based on the EU international commissioner Katja Kallas on X.

“Now Trump is waiting for a consideration – and it will fail”

The chairman of the Munich Security Conference and former diplomat, Christopher Heusgen, criticized Trump together with his Russian counterpart after the cellphone name. “It is afraid that the American president still thinks to complete a ‘deal’ with Putin, compensation for performance and consideration,” he instructed Reuters on Tuesday. “The answer to Putin’s aggression can only be: show strength – painful sanctions and arms deliveries, European and transatlantic unity,” mentioned Heusgen. “The Russian economy is already weakening, but the pressure is not enough to move Putin to give in.”

Trump has already made an advance cost by excluding Ukraine NATO membership and promising Ukrainian territory. “Now Trump is waiting for a consideration – and it will fail.” In actuality, Putin doesn’t need a deal, however insists on the achievement of his most calls for. This means demilitarization of Ukraine and the substitute of the Selenskji authorities by a puppet regime. “Putin puts temporary time, believes to sit on the longer lever. His ‘accommodation’ after the phone call with Trump is ridiculous: the development of a ‘memorandum’ as a predetermination for a ceasefire. This can take a long time,” warned Heusgen.

The parliamentary managing director of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Steffen Bilger, additionally expresses himself upset with Trump and Putin’s cellphone name. “Trump underestimates what danger from Putin is,” says the CDU politician. The result’s “once again disappointing”. The Europeans must maintain collectively and proceed to pursue the sanction path in opposition to Russia.