Where is Germany in the Ukraine standoff? Its allies wonder

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BERLIN - The United States and its Nato allies are moving to bulk up their military commitments in the Baltics and Eastern Europe as the standoff with Russia over Ukraine deepens.

Denmark is sending fighter jets to Lithuania and a frigate to the Baltic Sea. France has offered to send troops to Romania. Spain is sending a frigate to the Black Sea. President Joe Biden has put thousands of US troops on"high alert."

Mr Biden held a video call with European leaders Monday night, saying it went"very, very, very" well, and beforehand Mr Scholz reiterated that Russia would suffer"high costs" in case of a military intervention. But the German government has not only ruled out any arms exports to Ukraine, it is also holding up a shipment of nine communist-era howitzers from Estonia to Ukraine.

"Berlin is making a big strategic mistake and putting its reputation at risk," Mr Laurynas Kasciunas, chair of the national security committee of the Lithuanian Parliament, told public broadcaster LRT. "This patronising attitude subconsciously also reminds Ukrainians of the horrors of the Nazi occupation, when Ukrainians were treated as subhuman," said Mr Andriy Melnyk, Ukraine's ambassador to Germany.

 

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