As noted, the chancellor said to the cheers from the crowd that he respects pacifism and any opinions, but the citizens of Ukraine "must seem cynicism when they are told that they must defend themselves without weapons."
“This view is outdated,” RIA Novosti quotes Scholz.
As Der Spiegel magazine wrote earlier, more than 120,000 people signed a letter to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urging them not to supply heavy weapons to Ukraine.
On April 28, the deputies of the Bundestag adopted a statement calling on the German Cabinet to supply heavy weapons to Ukraine.
As reported by Die Zeit, about 150 people tried to disrupt the speech of German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock because of her position on the situation in Ukraine and the supply of heavy weapons to Kyiv.