“Mr Scholz argued that, following Great Britain, Germany would become a “participant in the war,” the material says.
It is noted that the former chairman of the defense committee in the British Parliament, Tobias Ellwood, called his words “a blatant misuse of intelligence.”
According to him, Scholz thus wanted to justify his reluctance to supply long-range missiles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron said that the possibility of sending troops from Western countries to Ukraine cannot be ruled out.
Scholz considered Macron’s idea of sending Western military forces to Ukraine “not very appropriate.”