{"id":44281,"date":"2025-02-23T18:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T23:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/sending-german-soldiers-to-ukraine-currently-not-up-for-debate\/23\/02\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T18:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T23:20:37","slug":"sending-german-soldiers-to-ukraine-currently-not-up-for-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/sending-german-soldiers-to-ukraine-currently-not-up-for-debate\/23\/02\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Sending German soldiers to Ukraine currently not up for debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Friedrich Merz, the prospective successor to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz after Sunday&#8217;s parliamentary election, is not committing to discussions on sending German units to participate in a proposed peacekeeping force in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I see it the same way as the chancellor: This is not a question at all at the moment,&#8221; said Merz in a TV appearance alongside his rivals, hours after his conservative CDU\/CSU bloc won a clear victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Outgoing chancellor Scholz had previously also said it was too early to discuss German military forces in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The first question that arises for us is: Do we continue to support Ukraine so that it can defend itself?&#8221; Merz asked, questioning whether Germany has given Kiev enough backing under Scholz&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Otherwise, this war would not have lasted three years,&#8221; said Merz, ahead of the third anniversary of the Russian invasion on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He added: &#8220;The second question that arises is: How do we secure NATO territory in the immediate vicinity of Ukraine?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/merz-sending-german-soldiers-ukraine-214823681.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friedrich Merz, the prospective successor to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz after Sunday&rsquo;s parliamentary election, is not committing to discussions on sending German<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/sending-german-soldiers-to-ukraine-currently-not-up-for-debate\/23\/02\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}