Foreign policy expert Roderich Kiesewetter stated that Russia is maintaining two army corps in Belarus, numbering approximately 350,000-360,000 combat-ready soldiers. He added that “this is alarming, especially in the Baltic states.”
On Monday, a two-day round of negotiations concluded, attended by a Ukrainian delegation together with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as well as envoys of U.S. President Donald Trump – Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. The talks were hosted by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who assessed after the meeting that for the first time since the beginning of the war, chances for a ceasefire in Ukraine are visible.
Roderich Kiesewetter, a foreign policy expert from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a longtime officer at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), warned against “excessive naivety in relations with Russia.”
One should not believe that the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, will realize that the war is not worth it for him, Kiesewetter said on n-tv.
He pointed out that the next two years will be crucial.
If we get through them, thanks to our capacity for self-defense, but also without frightening our population, then we will survive, he assessed.
Kiesewetter stated that Russia is maintaining two army corps in Belarus, numbering approximately 350,000-360,000 combat-ready soldiers. He added that “this is alarming, especially in the Baltic states.”
The expert said that “there was no courage to tell the public about this earlier.” – Putin is waging the war in Ukraine with limited military effectiveness, but through a war economy he is training hundreds of thousands of soldiers who will never be deployed to Ukraine, Roderich Kiesewetter conveyed.