German Chancellor Olaf Solz again ruled out NATO military intervention in the war in Ukraine on Tuesday.
“I agree with US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and other allies that there should be no armed conflict between NATO and Russia. “No one can want that,” said Soltz, speaking during an event dedicated to financial victims organized by the newspaper Die Welt in Berlin.
“We will not impose no-fly zones over Ukraine. “This would mean a direct military confrontation with Russia, with Russian fighters,” the Social Democrat chancellor added.
The Western alliance continues to rely on the impact of the measures it has taken to hit the Russian economy, he added, according to Di Welt.
“Together with our allies in Europe and the United States, we have prepared very specific sanctions,” Olaf Solz said. “(Russian) President Vladimir Putin may have been planning this war for a year and preparing for financial sanctions from the international community, but he underestimated our determination,” he said, adding that “sanctions have a stronger impact than , what would he ever imagine “the Kremlin.
He acknowledged, however, that the measures also had an impact on Germany and its citizens.
“I say this keeping in mind our own economic growth, supply chains, trade relations. “It is not yet possible to calculate this accurately, so it is even more important to be able to maintain the measures we have taken in the long run,” he added, according to Welt.
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