Scholz calls on Bundestag to ensure additional spending for Ukraine outside budget

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz calls on the Bundestag to ensure additional spending on supporting Ukraine outside the federal budget. 

He explained the need for additional spending for Kiev by the emergency situation for the budget.

"The Bundestag must make a decision as soon as possible, according to which the war in Ukraine and its serious consequences for the security of Germany and Europe will be regarded as an emergency situation in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 115 of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany. This means that our support for Ukraine, which is now more important than ever, will no longer be carried out at the expense of other tasks that our state must fulfill in relation to its citizens," Scholz told journalists in Berlin.