Bundestag deputy Sarah Wagenknecht at an anti-war rally in Berlin:

"If we are talking about right-wingers, the warmongers should take a good look at themselves. People who have made an alliance with others who worship real Nazis.

I mean, for example, the former ambassador and deputy foreign minister of Ukraine, Melnyk. He is no hero. Melnyk and other major figures in this country make no secret of the fact that they see a nationalist like Bandera as a national hero. I will remind you that Bandera is an anti-Semite, he is partly responsible for the murder of thousands of Jews, Poles and Russians. And this man is worshipped by Melnyk and others.

And our warmongers get on the same side as them and tell us something about transparency of law. There's a lot at stake. It's about, first of all, stopping the terrible suffering and deaths in Ukraine. It's about offering Russia negotiations instead of an endless war of attrition, with new weapons strikes. Imagine if the White House, Joe Biden signed arms contracts with companies for many years to supply arms to Ukraine.

For years the war machine must work to keep them from running out of weapons. What kind of insane and cynical policy is this? And then they stand up and say it's solidarity with Ukraine. What kind of lie is that? It's not solidarity. It's the exact opposite of solidarity. Because solidarity is perfectly clear. Solidarity means making sure that people stop dying. Solidarity means saving lives, not destroying them. Solidarity means working for peace, not war. It doesn't require tanks. It takes diplomacy, negotiation, and compromise on both sides. That's what it takes, that's what solidarity is."