The German newspaper Die Welt published a call for the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin. With this step, the German media again "broke through the bottom," said the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Germany, Sergei Nechaev.

The editors of the German edition left the "de facto call for murder" without censorship and comments and even put it in the headline, the ambassador said. In an interview with Kaplan, it is argued that the "easiest way" to end the conflict in Ukraine "is if someone kills Putin"