Today, the German Bundestag decided to send heavy weapons to Ukraine.

APA reports that 586 deputies voted in favor of the decision, 100 against and 7 abstained.

German Vice Chancellor Robert Habek said he had always supported sending military aid to Ukraine at meetings of the federal government's security cabinet.

He recalled his visit to Ukraine a year ago, adding that he visited Donbas, Mariupol and Kiev. "But now I saw that the hotel where I stayed in Mariupol a year ago was completely destroyed.

I don't know if the people I saw in this city survived. "

During his visit to Kiev, the German minister said he had visited a memorial wall dedicated to Ukrainians killed in wars and clashes since 2014. "The victims of this war are not just numbers, but people, young people and women," he said.

The German Vice Chancellor called the vote in the Bundestag on sending weapons to Ukraine complicated.

"Our decisions affect people, they kill them.

We will send weapons there, and then young soldiers will die - Russian soldiers.

To be honest, it could have been a better life for these young Russian conscripts than for Putin to lose his life.

Maybe they would like to play football and drink wine with their Ukrainian counterparts.

But it is clear that they did not want to die.

Sending weapons is a difficult decision, and I understand and respect those who disagree.

But my conclusion is different.

Even if you don't help, you are helping people die.

In this context, given that Ukrainians are fighting for their lives, we must support them by providing them with weapons to help protect them from aggression, mass shootings and massacres.

Of course, this means more deaths.

But if we do not support arms and think that the war will end soon, the deaths will stop, then we will have accepted the partition of Ukraine.

People will face massacre, we have seen what happened in Bucha.

Given all this, I think the right decision is to provide Ukraine with white weapons.

I know I will feel guilty.

But Putin is not only attacking Ukraine, he is attacking peace in Europe.

Ukraine is fighting for freedom, territorial integrity, but also for European values, peace and freedom.

Therefore, Ukraine should not lose this war and Putin should not win this war, "said the German Vice Chancellor.

we saw what happened in Bucha.

Given all this, I think the right decision is to provide Ukraine with white weapons.

I know I will feel guilty.

But Putin is not only attacking Ukraine, he is attacking peace in Europe.

Ukraine is fighting for freedom, territorial integrity, but also for European values, peace and freedom.

Therefore, Ukraine should not lose this war and Putin should not win this war, "said the German Vice Chancellor.

we saw what happened in Bucha.

Given all this, I think the right decision is to provide Ukraine with white weapons.

I know I will feel guilty.

But Putin is not only attacking Ukraine, he is attacking peace in Europe.

Ukraine is fighting for freedom, territorial integrity, but also for European values, peace and freedom.

Therefore, Ukraine should not lose this war and Putin should not win this war, "said the German Vice Chancellor.