67% of Germans are in favor of military assistance to Ukraine. No other German party has such support
5 February 14:35
67 percent of German citizens support the provision of military assistance to Ukraine, and a significant number of them are in favor of increasing such assistance. This is evidenced by the results of a representative survey conducted by the Wahlen research group for the ZDF frontal TV program, Komersant ukrainskyi reports.
According to the survey, 27 percent of respondents are in favor of increased military support for Kyiv from Germany. 40 percent believe that Germany should continue to support the country attacked by Russia. At the same time, as before, 27 percent say they are in favor of reducing the supply of weapons.
“What is surprising to me is that if we take together those who want to continue supporting Ukraine, we have 67 percent, which is a clear majority. This means that the fatigue with Ukraine that politicians sometimes talk about is not reflected in the population,” security expert Jana Pulerin of the European Council on Foreign Relations explains in an interview with ZDF frontal.
However, it is worth noting that there are differences in assessments between the East and West of the country. In the western part of Germany, support for assistance to Ukraine is higher than in the east: in the west, 70 percent of people are in favor of supplying weapons – 28 percent support more support, 42 percent support the same assistance as before.
In the east, a majority of 53 percent support German military support for Ukraine: 20 percent of eastern Germans favor more support and 33 percent favor the same amount as before.

German military involvement in peacekeeping
The poll, conducted by the Wahlen research group and commissioned by ZDF frontal, shows that the majority of Germans are in favor of the Bundeswehr, along with other European troops, participating in a possible ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. 59 percent of Germans are in favor of the Bundeswehr’s participation, while 35 percent are against it.
But again, there is a clear difference in attitudes between citizens of West and East Germany: while the majority of West Germans, namely 61 percent, support German participation, only 45 percent of East Germans do. In contrast, half of the East Germans say that the Bundeswehr should not participate in a possible European ceasefire mission, while only one-third of the West thinks so.
This idea has the most support among the Green Party’s voters, with 77 percent in favor of the Bundeswehr’s possible participation. On the other hand, supporters of Alternative for Germany are the only ones who overwhelmingly demand that Germany should not participate in such a mission – 71 percent are against it.
“Smart German politicians will realize that if there is a peace agreement, we must monitor this peace agreement. We must protect Ukrainians from new attacks. And this will require the deployment of troops. Including German troops,” said former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in an interview with ZDF frontal
ZDF frontal reminds that in recent years, Rasmussen has been advising Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on a peace plan that also includes Western guarantees.
As you know, in January, Germany announced a new military aid package for Ukraine. In total, about €5 billion has already been spent on military support for Ukraine in 2023 and about €1.6 billion in 2022. Since the beginning of Russia’s war of aggression, Germany has also transferred materials from Bundeswehr warehouses to Ukraine with an estimated replacement value of about 5.2 billion euros. In total, Germany has already provided Ukraine or is planning to provide military assistance worth about 28 billion euros in the coming years.
What about the ratings of German parties before the election?
The CDU/CSU bloc still holds the lead with 28%. This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the Forsa agency, commissioned by RTL and n-tv. Moreover, this is two percentage points less than a week ago. It is believed that the decline in support for the CDU/CSU was influenced by the fact that this conservative bloc has entered into ad hoc cooperation in the Bundestag with the far-right Alternative for Germany.

The far-right AfD and the Social Democratic Party of the current German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are in second and third place with 20% and 16% respectively.
The results of the German Greens and the Left have slightly improved – 15% and 5% respectively, each with one percentage point more than a week earlier.
The rest of the German parties in the Forsa poll do not pass the 5% threshold.