BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz mentioned on Saturday {that a} Russian assault on Ukraine can be a “severe mistake” with excessive “political, financial and geostrategic prices”.
There was no justification for some 100,000 troopers massing on Ukraine’s borders, he advised the Munich Safety Convention in a livestreamed speech.
“Russia has made the difficulty of Ukraine’s attainable NATO membership a casus belli, which is a paradox as a result of right here is not any choice on this on the agenda,” he mentioned.
The West was nonetheless prepared to barter over Russia’s safety calls for “with out being naive”.
“We are going to differentiate clearly between untenable calls for and bonafide safety pursuits,” he added.
(Reporting by Thomas Escritt and Sarah Marsh in Berlin)
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