German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to make a government statement on the country’s current security situation in the lower house of parliament on Thursday, days after he gave the green light for Ukraine to use German weapons to strike targets in Russia. Scholz is expected to address both his decision to give Kiev more leeway in its use of German-supplied arms and a recent stabbing attack in the south-western city of Mannheim, in which a police officer was killed. After long-held concerns about escalating the conflict with Russia and drawing Germany into the war, Scholz changed course on Ukra…