Chancellor Olaf Scholz is hosting the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin on June 11 and doubled down on Germany’s support for Kyiv in its struggle against a Russian invasion. However, following the European Parliament elections at the weekend’s sharp lurch to the right, the resurgent AfD right wing populist party boycotted the conference and has vowed to bring the war in Ukraine to an end. AfD has been accused of receiving financing from Moscow and has a general pro-Russia policy. “Germany is standing by our side in our suffering and our pain,” Zelenskiy told German lawmakers in the Bundest…