mo4ch:>Russia sanctions proved inefficient, can’t bring peace to Ukraine – German state PM | Mo4ch News

The prime minister of the German state of Thuringia joined the chorus of resounding voices against sanctions on Russia, arguing that the “inefficient” penalties don’t deliver peace in Ukraine but increase suffering.“The political ineffectiveness of the sanctions has long been proven; their declared goal, much-needed peace in Ukraine, is as far away as ever,” Thuringia Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow, a long-time member of Germany’s Left Party, told a local paper, adding that “the suffering of the civilian population [is] great.”He isn’t the only head of a German state to lash out at the sweeping sanctions the US and EU imposed on Moscow in 2014. “Russia is a strategically important partner,” Michael Kretschmer, the prime minister of Saxony and member of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), tweeted after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last Friday.“For a better relationship, we need an end to sanctions,” he said, triggering a wave of criticism from the media and rank-an…