Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oleh Nikolenko was responding to a comment from German lawmaker Michael Kretschmer, the head of the state of Saxony, who suggested that the Ukrainian government temporarily give up territory in exchange for a ceasefire with Russia.
Von der Russischen Föderation lernen heißt verlieren lernen.
Saxony and with extent all East German federal states except Berlin are on the brink of being ruled by a Pro-Russian party deemed by some of the somewhat conservative state level offices of the protection of the constitution(s) as extreme right. Civil alliances against the party are weak, notoriously underfunded and under constant attack by the political right. Anti-migration narratives fueling the party’s rise are dominant up into liberal discourse, right-wing discourse even unearthed anti-slavic sentiments against Ukrainian refugees. Elections are coming.