In his broad-ranging, three-hour press conference yesterday, President Vladimir Putin addressed the harsh reality that the German government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz has completely destroyed its relations with Moscow by choosing to supply weapons to Ukraine. Replying at length to a question on Scholz’s decision to supply weapons to Ukraine, from Martin Romanczyk of the German press agency, DPA, the President said: “When the first German-made tanks appeared on Ukrainian soil, it then produced such a moral and ethical shock in Russia, because the attitude toward the Federal Republic in Russian society has always been very good.