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Regina Laska wrote that CDA chairman Dennis Radtke (CDU) referred to Gerhard Schröder's recent appearance in Moscow in the Tagesspiegel as a "case of moral bankruptcy" and called on the SPD to expel the former chancellor from the party. Laska agreed with him. Schröder was too ill to testify before a parliamentary inquiry but fit enough to celebrate Vladimir Putin's birthday in Moscow and accept a new supervisory board position in Russia. According to Laska, the SPD state chairpersons in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are now also demanding a new expulsion procedure. The SPD district of Upper Palatinate voted unanimously in favor of it on Saturday. Schleswig-Holstein's SPD leader Ulf Kämpfer stated that the paths of the party and Schröder had parted ways many years ago. Laska asked why Schröder was still a member of the SPD. Previous expulsion procedures had failed in 2022 and 2023. It is not only about Schröder's differing stance on Russia policy, Laska wrote, but also about his demonstrative loyalty to Putin, who has been waging a war of annihilation against Ukraine for more than four and a half years. She also pointed out that SPD foreign policy expert Ralf Stegner had praised Schröder's visit to Putin. Pierre Orthen, chairman of the SPD local club in Baden-Württemberg's Leutenbach, publicly questioned whether this was in line with the responsibilities of a member of the Bundestag's Foreign Affairs Committee. Laska wrote that Stegner had held talks with Kremlin-affiliated representatives in Baku in April 2025. It apparently concerned the future of the Petersburg Dialogue, which Schröder co-founded with Putin in 2001. In June 2026, Stegner was said to have praised Schröder's connection to Putin; now he had attended Putin's birthday party. Laska asked what these contacts had achieved for peace in Ukraine and wrote that anyone justifying such talks as efforts for peace must also be able to explain what they had accomplished. #Schröder #Ukraine #SPD (translated)

The Greens in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern voted at a small party congress in favor of coalition negotiations with the SPD and the Left, so that talks for the formation of a red-red-green state government can begin on Monday. #Koalitionsverhandlungen #MecklenburgVorpommern #Grüne (translated)

In Russian attacks with glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia, at least twelve people, including three minors, have been killed and many others injured, while discussions about ending the Ukraine war are taking place at the same time in the USA. #UkraineKrieg #Saporischschja #RussischeAngriffe (translated)

During the exchange in Miami, Florida, it was, among other things, about "short-term measures to prepare for winter" in Ukraine, such as strengthening energy infrastructure and grain exports, Witkoff explained on Friday via the online service X. #Ukrainekrieg #Gespräche #USA (translated)

BrennpunktUA reported, citing Axios, that the USA had threatened Ukraine with a restriction on access to intelligence information if attacks on Russian oil refineries continued. The threat was made during talks between Wittkoff and Kushner with a Ukrainian delegation in Miami. After the "Trump-Putin Diesel Deal" became known, the Ukrainian side had aborted the talks. According to a source cited by BrennpunktUA, the USA had urged the Ukrainian leadership at least six times to stop attacks on Russia's oil infrastructure. The Trump administration believed that these attacks had triggered an energy crisis in Russia and forced the country to halt its diesel exports, which caused prices to rise in the USA. #Ukraine #USA #Russland (translated)

"With the massive drone attack on Moscow, other cities, and polling stations on the main election day, the regime in Kyiv has effectively eliminated the possibility of an immediate resumption of the negotiation process." According to Yuri Ushakov, the foreign policy spokesman for the Russian presidential office, Putin stated that Kyiv undermined the talks through drone attacks on Moscow during the Russian parliamentary elections last month. #UkraineKrieg #KonstrukiveGespräche #USAPolitik (translated)

After the arrival of Ukrainian negotiators in Miami, US special envoy Steve Witkoff stated that there have been "constructive conversations" about ending the Ukraine war and measures to strengthen the energy infrastructure, while Russia blames Ukraine for the stalemate in negotiations. #UkraineKrieg #KonstrukiveGespräche #USAPolitik (translated)