Ukrainian ambassador Makeiev warns against BSW demands

The Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Oleksii Makeiev, is calling on the CDU and SPD not to give in to the foreign policy demands of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance. "Those who adopt the BSW's slogans will only lose themselves," he told Stern magazine. The "politicians of the democratic parties" should "not allow themselves to be dissuaded from the basic principles of democracy, international law or solidarity with Ukraine by populists at either state or federal level."

The BSW had repeatedly made a position against the planned stationing of more extensive US missiles in Germany and support for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine a prerequisite for forming a coalition. The Minister Presidents of Saxony and Brandenburg, Michael Kretschmer and Dietmar Woidke, as well as the Thuringian CDU leader Mario Voigt, had spoken out in favor of stronger diplomatic engagement by Germany to end the war in Ukraine after the state elections in their states - and were also met with criticism from within the party.

Makeiev explained that demands to end the Russian war of aggression should be directed "solely at Moscow". He criticized: "The BSW is instrumentalizing Russia's genocidal war against my country in order to profit from it politically." At the same time, the alliance is denying Russian war crimes and practising perpetrator-victim reversal. It is an "alliance of Leninist ideologues".