“Given our responsibility to our own history, there is only one place for Germany in this situation: on the side of Ukraine,” said the German chancellor. “In 2024, we cannot celebrate this on July 20 without thinking about the brave citizens of Ukraine who resisted the criminal Russian war of aggression for more than two years.” During the speech, Scholz also noted that the war is currently ongoing “with which the Russian rulers pursue the declared goal of conquering Ukraine and destroying it as a sovereign country – 79 years after the end of World War II and 79 years after the entry into forc…