Germany says Russia will pay price if it moves on Ukraine

BERLIN, 18 January 2022, (TON): Germany's foreign minister said “she hoped tensions with Russia over Ukraine could be solved by diplomacy, but she warned that Moscow would suffer if it does attack its neighbour.”

Minister Annalena Baerbock was speaking in Kyiv on a tour that next takes her to Moscow after talks between Russia and Western states on the Kremlin's deployment of tens of thousands of troops along Ukraine's border ended with no breakthrough last week.

The United States said “last week it feared Russia was preparing a pretext to invade Ukraine, which Moscow denies.”

Baerbock told a joint news conference with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba "each further aggressive act will have a high price for Russia, economically, strategically, politically.”

"Diplomacy is the only way."

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, visiting Madrid, said everything must be done to avoid military intervention in Ukraine.

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