Olaf Scholz said that Western sanctions against Russia work and warned Putin: “It's just the beginning”

The German Foreign Minister stated that the war in Ukraine “destroys” the Kremlin and that they will constantly tighten punishments

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks during a budget session of Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany, March 23, 2022. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner

German Foreign Minister Olaf Scholz assured Parliament on Wednesday that the sanctions decided by the West against Russia for the invasion of Ukraine “work” and warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that there will be more and that “it is just the beginning”.

“We see sanctions working. This is just the beginning, we will constantly tighten sanctions,” Scholz said in a debate in the Bundestag in which he sent Putin the message that the war in Ukraine “destroys Russia.”

Scholz said in relation to the war in Ukraine and a possible negotiated solution that “Ukrainians and no one else negotiate” about that country, although he added that Berlin will do “everything we can” to contribute to that process that leads to peace.

“We have avoided confrontation in Europe for eighty years and it must remain so,” said the German Foreign Minister, who insisted that in the war in Ukraine NATO “will not be a party, that is what the European Union (EU) and the United States agree on.”

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FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Foreign Minister Olaf Scholz attend a joint press conference in Moscow, Russia. February 15, 2022. Sputnik/Sergey Guneev/Kremlin via REUTERS

About the Russian president, he recalled that he has spoken with him on several occasions in recent weeks and assured: “He has to know the truth, war destroys the future of Russia. The guns must shut up right now.”

Scholz alluded to the reception of refugees from Ukraine in several European countries, including Germany and proclaimed that they are welcome but that there is “a huge task ahead” and praised the “unprecedented wave of solidarity” demonstrated by citizens.

(With information from EFE)

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