The West does not plan to change Putin's regime - Scholtz

The German Chancellor stressed that it is important not to draw Germany into the war in Ukraine, so Berlin does not plan to send his servicemen to the war zone. The event does not intend to make efforts to change the political regime in Russia, but the Kremlin head Vladimir Putin is convinced that there are such plans. This was stated by German Chancellor Olaf Soltz, Deutsche Welle writes. According to him, there are no such discussions.

The German politician believes that the Russian dictator will have to be reckoned with the fact that the European Union operates next to him. Scholz called the EU a community of open societies, liberal democracies. "Whoever sits, we do not decide. We also do not plan to change the regime," he said. The chancellor stressed that it is important not to draw Germany in the war in Ukraine. He assured society that German soldiers in our country would not.

"My desire is to avoid, so, for example, there are no German soldiers in Ukraine - and there will be no," - explained the German politician. We will remind, on July 2, Scholz called Crimea Ukrainian since the Soviet era. The German Chancellor recalled that Ukraine was already an independent state with membership in the UN during the Soviet Union and owned Crimea.

He recalled that our country of the peninsula had had a long time, and also stated that in the event of Ukraine's accession to NATO should not be unresolved border conflicts. Also in August, Olaf Soltz reported that Germany had a obligation to reach 2% of defense costs in 2024. After the start of the full -scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, he promised that the country would be allocated for defense even more than 2% of GDP, as required by NATO.