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Mr Scholz, there are not enough sanctions, why are you doing so little?
The internationally highly respected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj is again calling for an embargo of Russian oil and a complete exclusion of the Russian banking system from international finance. Should there be no "really painful sanctions package" against Russia and no deliveries of the weapons demanded by Kiev to Ukraine, this would be seen by Russia as "permission to advance".
The question remains: Why does the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a dozy friend of ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, a Russia lobbyist and "Putin insider" as well as dozy friend of Kremlin despot Vladimir Putin, do so little in terms of sanctions against Russia and arms deliveries to Ukraine?
Nevertheless, President Selensky welcomes the tightening of sanctions against Russia pushed by Western countries. These look "impressive", the Ukrainian president said in a video address, but they are not enough. They could hardly be called adequate given what the world had seen in Butsha, Selenskyj said. He also referred to the ongoing fighting in the port city of Mariupol or Kharkiv, as well as a likely imminent Russian offensive in the Donbass. (O.Bulka--BTZ)
