A certain war-weariness is spreading on the talk shows of the public broadcasters, which is said to be shared by a large proportion of the people in this country.
It is not the Germans who are fighting for their lives and freedom against the marauding army of a war criminal who aims to destroy Ukraine, but the Ukrainians.
But they are talked about, starting with the open letter from "Emma" to the bizarre TV appearances most recently on ZDF, and talked shop about "negotiations" with Putin, as if it were a matter of course that the Ukrainians submit to a fate which means death and ruin.
This finds its political expression in the SPD and the social-democratic staff in the federal government.
"War on critical media workers"
So it's good when organizations like Reporters Without Borders (RSF) never tire of pointing out what's happening in Ukraine.
In the meantime, according to the RSF, the eighth journalist has been killed in the Ukraine war: the French video reporter Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff died on the way to filming in eastern Ukraine.
Fragments of bullets pierced the windshield of his armored vehicle, fatally wounding the BFMTV journalist.
His colleague Maxime Brandstaetter and the Ukrainian fixer Oksana Leuta were slightly injured.
"The death of Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff once again illustrates the enormous dangers that independent journalists are exposed to when reporting in Ukraine," said RSF Managing Director Christian Mihr.
"The Russian army is waging a targeted war against critical media workers to suppress independent information from the war zone." According to RSF, eight media workers have been killed and 14 others injured in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began.
RSF has filed five criminal complaints against Russia with the International Criminal Court.