now, you are a member of the fdp.lition here in germany. the fdp is... small but very, very important. the fdp has long been seen as the party of... ..of business in germany. right now, there is a discussion about whether the g7 nations will go much further with sanctions on russia, maybe at the next g7 meeting... yeah. ..in japan next month. and maybe they will put essentially a total ban on trade with russia with maybe just a few small exceptions. yes. would you support that? yes, absolutely, we have to do it, we have no choice, because the situation i mean, it's. . . it's very easy, it's...it�*s a very simple situation. vladimir putin hopes that we are not ready for doing this and we have to do it, even if you are... the question of economic question. i mean, it's a huge one. but we have to realise that this zeitenwende, it's a real zeitenwende, so we have to change our mind and we have to think about with companies, with ceos that we have, yes, now that we have to do something. that's interesting, because it's not

it comes after a senior fdp politician visited taiwan in march.opean leaders are marking victory in europe day, it celebrates the surrender of germany's forces in 1945, and the end of the second world war in europe. commemorations have been held in france and germany. in a speech from kyiv, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy drew parallels between the defeat of nazi germany, and his country processed resistance to the soviet invasion. he also submitted a bill to formally change the date of ukrainian commemorations to mediate -- the country has a usually mark occasion on may 9 which is celebrated in russia on may 8. we spoke to that you couldn't ambassador to germany. he also echoes zelenskyy's desire to distance his country from the russian celebrations. >> ukraine and you couldn't have made very important contribution to the victory and to the elimination of nazis and in europe. we have been always saying never again, but unfortunately, the russian federation brought war to europe in the 21st century. they are using pretty much the same meth