Since the beginning of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, Israel has taken a neutral stance and refused to supply weapons to Ukraine. ‘It must not be that at the end of the war the world sees Germany as a complete brakeman just because we are unable to organise,’ said Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann. He described Putin’s war as “imperialism” that is “trying to bomb us back to a time when war was a common tool. “A capture of all of Ukraine by Russia seems further away today than it was at the beginning of the war. The next stage would be a bilateral treaty between Ukraine and Russia on “border issues”.