About 13,000 people gather at Brandenburg Gate, as demonstrations also take place in other German cities
Thousands of people have taken part in a demonstration in central Berlin to protest against giving more weapons to, urging the German government to deescalate the crisis by paving the way for negotiations with Vladimir Putin instead.
Other banners read: “Diplomaten statt Grenaten ”, “Stop the Killing” and “Not My War, Not My Government”. A woman called Edith, carrying a large portrait of the Indian revolutionary Mahatma Gandhi, said: “We should follow his example of nonviolent resistance to bring an end to this madness.” Roman Overko, from the Ukrainian city of Lviv who now lives in Berlin, said: “The idea of negotiating is naive. How do you negotiate with such enemies of humanity? You can’t talk to them like normal people. Putin is a second Hitler.”
Wagenknecht said her main motivation was to bring to an end the “terrible suffering and dying in Ukraine”. But that meant offering Russia negotiations, she said, “instead of a never-ending war of attrition with ever newer weapons”. She said her childhood fears of a nuclear war in the 1980s had been revived by the current conflict. The risk of the expansion of the war acrossRoses on a destroyed Russian tank type T-72 next to the Russian embassy in Berlin, Germany.
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