A case has been opened in Russia against a German journalist who asked Zelensky what Eu...

A case has been opened in Russia against a German journalist who asked Zelensky what Europeans need to do so that Ukraine can "kill more Russian soldiers"

A TASS source reported this.

A case against Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) correspondent Michael Martens was opened under the article on publicly inciting hatred or enmity.

On August 8, during a press conference in Belgrade by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Martens, in particular, asked: "Can you tell us, Europeans, specifically what we can do to help you kill more Russians? Russian soldiers, of course."

"We did not discuss any military cooperation today or at the present time," Vucic replied.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called the question "unacceptable and criminal." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's editors later noted that "the question was phrased ambiguously, which we regret."

"It is not Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's editorial position that as many Russian soldiers as possible should die. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung supports Ukraine's right to self-defense as guaranteed by international law and calls for the swiftest possible end to Russian military aggression," it says.

Martens himself commented on it this way: "Ask yourself what the right to self-defense means in the case of today's Ukraine. You will arrive at several additional questions. One of them concerns the essence of the question that was asked at the press conference in Belgrade."

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