MOSCOW (Reuters) – Germany is ready to defend elementary values in the battle with Russia over Ukraine, even when this implies paying a high financial price, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock mentioned after talks along with her Russian counterpart in Moscow on Tuesday.
Baerbock travelled on to Moscow from a go to to Kyiv on Monday after talks between Russia and Western states on the Kremlin’s deployment of tens of 1000’s of troops alongside Ukraine’s border ended with no breakthrough final week.
Russia has denied any plans to assault Ukraine, however Baerbock mentioned it was tough not to assess the Russian army construct-up on the border of Ukraine as “a menace.”
Pressure is rising on the German authorities to threaten to halt the Nord Stream 2 gasoline pipeline, meant to convey extra Russian gasoline to Western Europe, if Russian troops invade Ukraine.
Opponents of the mission, together with Ukraine and the United States, argue it could make Europe too depending on Russia.
“We haven’t any different possibility, even when this implies paying a high financial price,” Baerbock advised a joint information convention with Sergei Lavrov after the assembly.
“Germany has reiterated that, in case power is getting used as a weapon, that this may have penalties on the (Nord Stream 2) pipeline,” she famous.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has mentioned Germany is open to sanctions in opposition to Russia however the pipeline, which has already been constructed however not but accepted for operation, is a personal business mission that shouldn’t be singled out.
The information convention got here because the U.S. State Department mentioned U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken would journey to Kyiv and Berlin this week.
The United States has warned Russia not to invade Ukraine and urged each nations to return to a set of agreements designed to finish the battle in the japanese Donbass area.
Russian would welcome U.S. participation in diplomatic efforts to finish the battle in japanese Ukraine, Lavrov mentioned.
(Reporting by Alexander Ratz and Vladimir Soldatkin in Moscow, Zuzanna Szymanska and Sabine Siebold in Berlin, Writing by Sarah Marsh, Editing by Miranda Murray, William Maclean)
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