“Symbolic for the time in which we live”: Burbok commented on the photo with Scholz

German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock commented on the photo in which Chancellor Olaf Scholz is reaching out to her by the hand, and she is allegedly running away from him. Some media assumed that in this way Berbok protested to Scholz because of his blocking of aid to Ukraine.

This is reported by the German television company ZDF Heute, writes UNN.

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A photo is spreading on social networks, in which the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany apparently ignores the outstretched hand of Olaf Scholz. So some mass media began to put forward their assumptions about what is happening in the picture.

For example, BILD suggested that Burbok is “running away” from the chancellor in protest at his blocking of €3 billion in aid to Ukraine. However, the minister denied this assumption.

It’s more symbolic of the times we live in, where selective footage suggests things that aren’t actually happening

We will remind

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany prepared a plan for additional military aid to Ukraine for 3 billion euros. Chancellor Scholz did not approve the initiative, citing insufficient funding for 2025.