“Of course, the basis was that Russia was withdrawing its troops. But instead of troop withdrawal, Bucha happened. […] As terrible as it is, Putin doesn’t want negotiations. He doesn’t want peace, he wants “conquest”. […] Whoever claims that arms deliveries only prolong the war is playing into Putin’s hands. Because to say that the West is preventing Ukraine from negotiating is a lie,” Annalena Baerbock wrote in a column for Bild.
