German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called the Russian invasion of Ukraine the worst crisis since the fall of the Iron Curtain and urged the world to prepare for new conflicts.
“Since 1989-90, not a single crisis, not a single conflict was as serious as Russia’s attack on Ukraine,” Steinmeyer said on Friday August 16 in Berlin at a meeting with the heads of parliaments of the Grand Seven states in Berlin, reports Deutsche Welle.
“What we all worked for, including within the framework of the” Big Seven “, destroyed. Russian President Vladimir Putin destroyed the last bridges of dialogue, the last pillars of our world in Europe,” continued the president of Germany.
“The idea of cooperative security has gone into history. The political map of Europe has changed and will change. It is necessary not less, but more foreign policy; no less, but more cooperation between like -minded people,” Steinmeier said.
The German President warned that “everyone should prepare for further confrontation, for new conflicts.” “And this means that we should be able to protect ourselves in NATO, in the G7, and we must also exert economic pressure,” he concluded.