It is high time for those in Germany who still believe this war is only a temporary annoyance

It is high time for those in Germany who still believe this war is only a temporary annoyance – after which, and hopefully soon, we can return to the status quo – to finally wake up. Some of the people who adhere to such ideas sit in editorial offices, others hold professorships or seats in parliament, and there may even be some in the government cabinet. Some of them actually hope that Ukraine will lose as quickly as possible or, even better: That the country will surrender so that everything can go back to the way it was before.

But there will be no return to the status quo that existed before the war. Not for Russia, not for Europe – and certainly not for Ukraine. This has to be clear following the images from Bucha. In the northern suburbs of Kyiv, it appears that large numbers of civilians have been shot indiscriminately in the streets by Russian troops, some of them still carrying their groceries on bicycles, others executed with their hands tied. Mass graves have been found in the Kyiv suburbs.

These are war crimes of staggering dimensions. Acts of barbarism of the kind last seen in Europe during the Balkan wars. Acts of barbarism that were never supposed to happen in Europe again. Russian soldiers are now committing them in Ukraine before our very eyes: undeniably, even if the Russian regime, as always, tries to brazenly deny it.

Putin Feels Threatened By Ukraine

This war that Vladimir Putin has unleashed in Ukraine, and which is largely supported by his people, is a war of extermination against Ukraine: against Ukraine as a state, as a nation and as an identity. Ukraine shouldn’t be allowed to live, it shouldn’t be allowed to exist because, in Putin’s paranoid worldview, its very existence threatens Russia’s existence.

The crimes of Bucha are proof of the true meaning of the Russian invasion: Putin’s soldiers have not only invaded a sovereign country, and they are not only shelling civilian neighborhoods with heavy artillery – no, they are also executing civilians in the streets.

 https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/opinion-peace-in-europe-must-now-be-defended-against-putin-s-russia-a-51e18953-7328-4bc3-b08f-0c18fcf61cfd

 

Nachtrag t-online

https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/id_91941696/ukraine-krieg-eine-lage-in-der-es-keine-aussicht-auf-frieden-gibt.html

Guten Morgen, liebe Leserinnen und Leser,

seit fast sechs Wochen tobt der Ukraine-Krieg bereits. Wie sinnlos, brutal und menschenverachtend er ist, haben zuletzt die Horrorbilder aus Butscha gezeigt. Die russischen Truppen hinterließen in der Stadt nahe Kiew verbrannte Erde, sie massakrierten Menschen und zerstörten die Infrastruktur. Das ist unfassbar und unerträglich. 

Diese Kriegsverbrechen haben dafür gesorgt, dass die Welt erneut aufgeschreckt ist. Denn zuvor war bereits ansatzweise eingetreten, was leider selbst bei den größten Katastrophen fast immer geschieht: Viele gewöhnen sich an die Ausnahmesituation. Das bedeutet nicht, dass sie abstumpfen und weggucken. Aber eben doch, dass sie nicht mehr jedes Bruchstück an Neuigkeiten mit der gleichen Betroffenheit aufnehmen wie zu Beginn.