US President-elect Donald Trump wants members of the NATO military alliance to devote five percent of their national output to defence, a demand that has already been rejected as too high by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Germany's defence minister said he was open to sending German soldiers to Ukraine to help secure a demilitarised zone there if a ceasefire were agreed with Russia, in remarks published Saturday.

Annalena Baerbock, German Foreign Minister and co-leader of the Greens, insists that Berlin should provide Ukraine with more military aid than currently planned in the budget. Source: Spiegel, as reported by European Pravda Details: The foreign minister made such comments while speaking to the media in Saudi Arabia on the sidelines of a meeting on the future of Syria.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer signaled continued solidarity, with further U.S. support in question under a second Trump administration.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says he will again ask his allies to boost the country's air defenses at this week’s meeting in Germany.

The current caution over the aid package clashes with Scholz’s earlier strong support for arming Ukraine; Germany has given 16 percent of all aid to Kyiv, second only to the United States. The standoff over the €3 billion package meant Pistorius showed up in Kyiv earlier this week with very little to offer.

Germany has sufficient gas in storage to cover demand over the current 2024/25 winter season, despite the end of Russian gas exports to central Europe on Jan. 1, storage operators' group INES said on Thursday.

Germany as a whole isn’t currently seen as a driving force for peace policy in Europe, and honestly that pains me,” Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told POLITICO.

Germany's cabinet has decided to authorise the ... "especially since [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine, we have seen that drones are being used more and ...

Just before Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, Germany offered Ukraine 5,000 combat helmets as an aid against a potential Moscow attack. Kyiv's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, called the gesture “an absolute joke,