From the summer of 2021, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia in the already tense situation after the illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula and the ongoing conflicts in the Donbas region became increasingly acute.
Finally, on February 24, 2022, with troops deployed and concentrated on the Ukrainian border, Russia launched a large-scale, multi-directional conventional attack against Ukraine.
This European “post-war caesura” suddenly made it clear to the public that peace – also in Europe – can no longer be taken for granted. Every sovereign state must be able to defend itself militarily against an aggressor. On February 27, 2022, Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz made this clear in his “Zeitenwende” speech before the German Bundestag. He resigned
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