Germany and Ukraine to jointly develop new long -range weapons, since UN experts accuse Russia of war crimes

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Wednesday during a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Berlin will help Kyiv develop new long -range weapons that can achieve goals in Russian territory. He said that the defense ministers of both countries would sign a memorandum of understanding for the production of long -range weapons systems, declining to provide technical details or name the manufacturers involved.

“There will be no rank restrictions, which allows Ukraine to completely defendeven against military objectives outside its own territory, “he said at a joint press conference.

Berlin from Zelenskyy occurs days after Russia launched some of its missile attacks and unmanned planes of the conflict in Ukraine, and as president Trump voices growing frustration With Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Ukrainian president accused Russia of stopping peace conversations and said that Moscow did not want to stop his three -year invasion, adding that “they will constantly seek reasons not to end the war.”

Russian strikes ongoing are war crimes, UN experts conclude

Merz said that “the mass air attacks, particularly in the city of kyiv during the weekend, do not speak the language of peace, but the language of a war of aggression,” calling it “, a slap of all those who try to cause a high fire in Ukraine, but also in Europe and the United States.”

The Army of Russia has committed “crimes against humanity” and “war crimes” in its drone attacks against civil infrastructure in the Kherson region of Ukraine in particular, a panel of experts in the United Nations concludes in a report published on Wednesday. The International Independent Research Commission on Ukraine, established by the UN Human Rights Council, said the Russian armed forces were “systematically” hitting civilians.

“The Russian armed forces have committed crimes against humanity of murder and war crimes to attack civilians, through a pattern of drone attacks of a month aimed at civilians on the right bank of the Dnipro River in the province of Kherson,” said the investigation in his atypically forceful evaluation. “These acts were committed with the main purpose of spreading terror among the civilian population, in violation of international humanitarian law.”

The UN Panel added that “the attacks continue at the time of publication of this report.”

Germany calls Ukraine Missile Deal a “new form of military-industrial cooperation”

Merz, who took power earlier this month, promised to maintain strongly supporting Ukraine, but without giving details of what weapons is sending Germany, in line with a strategic ambiguity policy.

The joint production of long -range weapons “can take place both in Ukraine and here in Germany,” he said. “We will not provide more details until new notice.”

Merz praised the project as “the beginning of a new form of military-industrial cooperation among our countries that has great potential.”

Merz had pointed out in a television interview this week that “there are no longer rank restrictions on weapons delivered to Ukraine, neither by the British nor by the French either for us nor for the Americans.”

“This means that Ukraine can now defend himself, for example, attacking military positions in Russia … with very few exceptions, he did not do so until recently. Now he can do that.”

In fact, Ukraine has intensified the attacks against what he states that they are military and military sites deep in Russia, including a wave of almost 300 drones that the military of Russia claimed to have intercepted during the night. Ukrainian military bloggers said the drones had signed up for drone, missile and explosive facilities, including one north of Moscow and other sites near the capital.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was summoned by the State News Agency TASS on Wednesday by saying that the German-Ucaranian association would increase the tension between Russia and Europe, and added: “Germany is directly attracted to this war.”

However, that is a position that Russia has issued for months, and Lavrov said that German tanks were already on the battlefield, “therefore, direct participation in the war is already obvious.”

“Germany is sliding along the same inclined plane along which it has already moved a couple of times in the last century, until its collapse. I hope that the responsible politicians in this country still reach the correct conclusion, stop madness,” Tass Lavrov said.

Kremlin suggests that Trump is poorly informed after he calls Putin “crazy”

Assuming the central leader of the left Olaf Scholz, Merz has changed the tone in Berlin and expressed the harsh criticism of Putin, who, the Foreign Minister accused this week, “obviously sees offers of conversations as a sign of weakness.”

Trump, who for a long time had promised that he would quickly negotiate the end of the war, issued a rare repressing of Putin on social networks on Sunday.

“I have always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin de Russia, but something has happened to him. He has become absolutely crazy!” The president said.

At first, Moscow seemed to minimize his comments, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, suggesting that all parties were talking in conditions of emotional overload.

When asked about the comments of the president of the United States on Wednesday, however, Putin’s progress has been Pacific in the Russia Federation. ”

He said that the US leader could not “completely understand that the Russian Federation is surprising exclusively in the military infrastructure facilities or the military-industrial complex of Ukraine.”

The false claim occurs after many months of russian rockets and drone strikes that hit Ukrainian apartment buildings and other civil infrastructure, killing hundreds of civilians.

On Tuesday, Trump warned that Putin was “playing with fire”, in the middle of unconfirmed reports that the US leader is now considering new sanctions against Russia, something that the United States NATO allies have asked for a long time.

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• Vladimir Putin
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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