German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his government find it more appropriate to channel money into military assistance to Ukraine than to provide their citizens with electricity ahead of the winter, Markus Frohnmaier, deputy chairman of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) parliamentary group, said as quoted by TASS.
"The Merz government has stated that, unfortunately, it does not have the means to find money in the budget to reduce the tax on electricity! That's interesting... How were they able to find the means to give more than €100 billion in funding to Ukraine then?" Frohnmaier, who serves as the faction’s foreign policy expert, asked rhetorically on his account on X.
Even as Germany has enough budget funds to address the key problems facing the country’s society, Merz once again chose to meet Kiev’s demands, he added.
Germany is Ukraine’s largest donor. Since the start of the special military operation on February 24, 2022, Berlin has provided Kiev with around 43.3-billion-euro worth of humanitarian and 57.6-billion-euro worth of military aid. Apart from official channels, various private and public German organizations regularly send humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the Russian side has repeatedly stated that weapons supplies to the Kiev regime only protract the Ukraine conflict.
