German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed not to send peacekeeping troops into a demilitarised zone in Ukraine if a ceasefire were to be agreed between Kyiv and Moscow.
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00:00Chancellor Olaf Scholz battled questions from German MPs in the Bundestag on Wednesday,
00:06ahead of the vote of confidence that the Chancellor has called for December 16th.
00:12Scholz has drawn the line at sending German soldiers into Ukraine after the foreign ministers
00:17suggested that peacekeeping troops could be stationed in a demilitarized zone if a ceasefire
00:23between Russia and Ukraine was agreed.
00:26The Chancellor was gruelled about the shrinking economy, which has continued to deteriorate
00:30over the past three years, while Scholz has been in power due to repercussions stemming
00:35from Covid and Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which have arguably been outside
00:40the government's control.
00:43While Scholz said that he would continue to work on policies over the next couple of months
00:46ahead of the vote scheduled for February, it's clear that he's already in full election
00:51campaign mode.
00:53Liv Stroud, in Berlin, for Euronews.