The Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Oleksii Makeiev, is calling on the CDU and SPD not to give in to the foreign policy demands of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance. "Those who adopt the BSW's slogans will only lose themselves," he told Stern magazine. The "politicians of the democratic parties" should "not allow themselves to be dissuaded from the basic principles of democracy, international law or solidarity with Ukraine by populists at either state or federal level."
The BSW had repeatedly made a position against the planned stationing of more extensive US missiles in Germany and support for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine a prerequisite for forming a coalition. The Minister Presidents of Saxony and Brandenburg, Michael Kretschmer and Dietmar Woidke, as well as the Thuringian CDU leader Mario Voigt, had spoken out in favor of stronger diplomatic engagement by Germany to end the war in Ukraine after the state elections in their states - and were also met with criticism from within the party.
