Kretschmer deplores division on Ukraine issue

Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer (CDU) bemoans a growing division in society in the discussion about aid for Ukraine. "People are stigmatized if they have a different opinion, that's very, very bad," said Kretschmer in the podcast "Meine schwerste Entscheidung" (My toughest decision) by the Funke media group.

Those who have a critical position on the arms deliveries are often discredited as "Putin-understanders". Society is thus repeating a mistake that it already made during the coronavirus pandemic. The question is why we have not learned from this: "That we have to communicate, that we have to allow different opinions, that we have to make them visible," said Kretschmer.