Survey to the Ukraine conflict: Germans are against sharper Russia sanctions

Berlin - the Germans by the majority sharper sanctions reject defiance of the continuous conflict with Russia against Moscow. In “Germany trend” - survey among 1023 Federal citizens for the ARD “morning magazine” was only one minority of 19 percent to expand the punitive measures. The present sanctions of the USA and the European Union consider 43 percent appropriate. Over a quarter (27 percent) pleads even for their abolition.

In an interview with the ARD of Russia had described president Wladimir Putin the sanctions as danger for the west: “That will sooner or later have effects not only with us, but also with you.” The Russian and the German economy are intertwined with one another too closely, so the head of the Kremlin.

New punitive measures are not apparently first planned: Only on Monday the EU Foreign Ministers had done without new sanctions against Russia and had only decided to occupy further separatists in Ukraine with entry and account barriers.