Baerbock will help Ukraine ‘no matter what voters think’

GERMANY’S foreign minister has said she would keep supporting Ukraine even if the public wanted her to stop, as sanctions take a toll on household finances.

In Prague, Annalena Baerbock said “no matter what my German voters think, I want to deliver” on promises made to Ukraine to maintain sanctions against Moscow. A poll by broadcaster ARD shows 53 per cent of Germans support sanctions, even if they raise living costs – down from 66 per cent in March.

Alice Weidel, Bundestag leader of the far-right AFD, said: “Anyone who explicitly scorns the interests of voters in Germany no longer has any business in a ministerial post.”

The foreign ministry said yesterday a video clip of the incident had been manipulated to rob it of context.