A year of turning point speech: How top politicians and the then Ambassador to Ukraine remember the day: "It was such a blah blah speech"

“We are experiencing a turning point” – it is the one sentence that sums up Olaf Scholz’s previous chancellorship. Exactly a year ago today, he said it, in his government statement, which he made in a special session of the German Bundestag – two days after the start of the Russian attack on Ukraine.

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