🇩🇪🇺🇦 The war in Ukraine will last a long time, - Merz

According to him, wars end either with "military defeat of one of the parties", which neither Ukraine nor Russia are close to now, or with "economic and/or military exhaustion", which is also not observed now.

The current diplomatic efforts are aimed at ending the war, but "not at the cost of Ukraine's capitulation", the Chancellor said, since if it loses its independence, another country will be next.