German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock called for the approval of a new supply of weapons to Ukraine worth 3 billion euros. euros, on the eve of the country's early parliamentary elections on February 23, DPA reported, quoted by BTA.
Berbock expressed hope that the Budget Committee in the German parliament will be able to finalize the approval of the aid in the coming week, she told the ARD television station.
“We see that the Russian president is not paying any attention to the fact that we are currently in an election campaign and facing early elections“, said Berbock, referring to Vladimir Putin's ongoing war in Ukraine.
The proposal to supply weapons has sparked a dispute between Berbock's “Greens“ party and Chancellor Olaf Scholz's German Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Scholz said he would approve a new arms delivery only if the so-called The debt brake, which sets strict limits on government borrowing, should be lifted to secure the funding.
Berbock and her Green colleagues, along with the pro-business Free Democrats and the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, have argued that financing aid to Ukraine through "extraordinary spending" is a possible option.