Green Party leader Omid Nouripour: There is a need for discussion in the SPD about its stance in the Ukraine war. In the Bundestag, the SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich suggested “freezing’ the war in Ukraine.

The SPD party conference resolution on this issue in December was completely different from what he last said, Nouripours says. Nouripouring: "The Social Democrats, especially Lars Klingbeil, the party leader, have done a lot in the last two years to collect and update the wrong Russia policy"