Who would have thought that Olaf Scholz would still travel to Kyiv?
Together with Emmanuel Macron, Mario Draghi and Romanian President Klaus Johannis, he got a picture of the situation in Kyiv and Irpin with his own eyes.
An entire city with no military facilities was destroyed.
That says "a lot about the brutality of the Russian war of aggression, which is simply aimed at destruction and conquest," said the Chancellor.
Irpin is a "very important memorial" that something needs to be done.
This brings us to the crux of the matter, namely that of effectively supporting Ukraine in its fight against annihilation and Russian superiority – with heavy weapons.
The federal government has been talking about them since Scholz's "Zeitenwende" dictum, but the Ukrainians have not yet seen that they are actually being delivered.
With this policy of the inauthentic, which has a devastating effect especially in times of war and is embodied in Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht alongside Scholz, the Chancellor, according to the latest surveys by the Forsa Institute, is said to be well received by a majority of Germans.
Scholz does not find the slight majority too hesitant
He was not too hesitant, said 58 percent.
At the same time, 56 percent of respondents believe that supplying heavy weapons to Ukraine is right, while 37 percent think it is wrong.
At the same time, a large majority of 83 percent is convinced that it makes sense to continue talking to Putin.
Only 54 percent think that former Chancellor Angela Merkel made mistakes when it came to Russia policy.
The SPD, on the other hand, is now at 20 percent in terms of political sentiment, seven percentage points behind the Union.
This stands for a both-but-but-not-which is also reflected in a survey by the "Reuters Institute Digital News Report", which states that Germans are allegedly "news-tired", i.e. exhausted by the lots of bad news.
Only 57 percent of adults aged 18 and over (with Internet access) said they were “extremely” or “very” interested in news.
In previous years, the percentage was higher.
At the same time, 92 percent watched the news on TV, radio, newspapers or the internet “at least several times” a week.
The creators of news offers on the Internet can only confirm this with a view to the number of hits, especially since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression.
The Reuters study now presented, whose data was collected in January and February, no longer noticed.
Media researcher Sascha Hölig from the Leibniz Institute for Media Research said that interest is falling, but not use.
In our opinion, however, it would not be necessary to look the other way, but to show the greatest interest.
The news may be tiring, but the Russian army's devastating strikes in Ukraine are not abating.
Putin's attack on the free West has only just begun.