The Chancellor does not just want to travel to Kyiv for a "photo shoot".

It must, said Olaf Scholz on RTL, "depend on the fact that something is specifically promoted, and must not just be a photo shoot".

He will "not join a group of people who do something for a quick in and out with a photo op.

But if, then it's always about very concrete things."

That's reassuring.

Because the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would certainly not want to receive him for a "photo session".

The Ukrainian government has adequately explained what it expects from Scholz, the federal government and Germany: robust support in the fight against the Russian war of extermination, heavy weapons with which Ukraine can defend itself against the aggressor's army.

It is significant that the chancellor, who is one of the few top Western politicians who has not yet been to Kyiv, is poking fun at those who have gone before.

Let's assume he meant the leader of the opposition, Friedrich Merz.

Or did he mean Ursula von der Leyen, Nancy Pelosi or the Presidents of Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania?

The coin that Scholz pays in is tiny.

He still can't get out of the skin of the offended liver sausage, the clock of the "turn of the era" he announced is running behind.

This is all the more remarkable given that, since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he has tried to give the impression that he saw things coming.

What the historic hour has struck

The Union, FDP and Greens - above all Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck - seem to have understood what the historical hour has struck: The Ukrainians are fighting for their survival, they are fighting for their human rights and their freedom, they do not want to live like slaves.

They fight for themselves, for us, for the free world.

The SPD, concerned with its Russia connection, understood this just as little as the signers of the open letter from Emma, ​​which called on the Ukrainians to capitulate for the sake of a "peace" for which mass murder, mass rape, deportation and the destruction of livelihoods and of culture - vulgo a genocide - obviously accepts.

Nobody needs a mere "photo session" with Olaf Scholz in Kyiv.

The chancellor should know that.