He noted that Germany's military support for Ukraine is an important decision.

“But you can’t know or say whether it’s good in a moral sense,” TASS quoted Habek in the city of Bayreuth as saying.

The minister stressed that any supply of weapons leads to human casualties.

“No one should be proud of this,” Khabek summed up.

Earlier, Der Tagesspiegel, citing data from research firm Forsa, reported that the crisis in Ukraine revealed a gap in views between East and West Germans that had previously been almost impossible to see on any other issue.