Green Party leader Omid Nouripour criticizes the SPD's stance on Ukraine. In the Bundestag, the SPD parliamentary group leader suggested “freezing’ the war in Ukraine.

The SPD party conference resolution on this issue in December was completely different from what Mützenich last said. Nouripours: "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 of the past few years"