Ukraine Latest: Scholz Seeks to Avoid Direct Russia Conflict
Rescuers work on a residential building destroyed after a missile strike, in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Jan. 16.
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany would back Ukraine — and coordinate decisions on delivering battle tanks with allies — but will ensure that a direct conflict between Russia and NATO is avoided.
“We support Ukraine as long as it is necessary, with all the means that we can use, but also always avoiding that this war is escalating” into a direct Russia-NATO conflict, Scholz said in an interview on Tuesday with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait.