The security expert Christian Mölling expects further attacks by Ukraine on military targets in Russia – and pleads for the use of German weapons not to be ruled out. Mölling said on Tuesday in the stern podcast “Ukraine – the situation” that the Russian armed forces had set up defensive positions around places on their territory that were important for logistics. These are cities with railway junctions, which of course are the focus of Ukrainians.
The research director of the German Society for Foreign Relations explains that the Ukrainians wanted to hit the enemy’s logistics on their territory with all means possible. “If you can’t do it with long-range missiles, then you’re trying to take over the territory, I think it’s totally understandable,” he says. These are limited operations related to the war in Ukraine and not the conquest of Russia. “Such activities are not a march on Moscow,” he says. “Of course it makes perfect sense to attack Russia’s logistics in order to stop the war in Ukraine.”
He shows understanding that the use of German weapons in Russia is highly controversial. “I accept that there are people who say: That’s not possible,” he emphasizes. Nevertheless, he personally takes a different position and calls on the federal government to examine expanding the previously limited possible uses: “I can only hope that this general limitation of use and thus also the reduction in the military effectiveness of what you deliver yourself , takes it back again.”
Mölling asks: “Is the historical burden that this entails enough to tie at least one hand behind your back?” After all, it is about preventing weapons and ammunition from getting to the front at all, where people are killed with their help. “If the Russians can’t shoot anymore, then they can give up or retreat.” Mölling warns against a “historically incorrect or limited perspective” on the Second World War. In particular, he points out that a significant proportion of the Soviet soldiers who defeated Nazi Germany were Ukrainians.
