This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

Dateline Berlin.

German defense minister Boris Pistorius arrived in Keefe in these last hours to discuss further weapons, aid for Ukraine

as efforts to end the three-year conflict, writes Reuters, with Russia facing headwinds

and the grim fact that AP is reporting Russia just passed one million casualties in the Ukraine

conflict.

Russia and Ukraine ads, Reuters, met for peace talks earlier this month in a renewed push.

However, the results of that seem unclear.

I welcome Anatol even to help us a little bit about clarity about the Istanbul talks.

However, I begin with Bistorias because there's a new government in the Bundestag.

The question is, is this profoundly different or incrementally different or politically different than the Olof Schultz government,

given that the social democrats are participating in this government? It's a coalition of the CDU and the social democrats. And I told a very good evening to Germany is the engine that NATO

needs and that Boris Bistorius remaining defense minister, though he's the other parties, the

Social Democratic Party, he was the

defense minister before, is understood in Germany to be a hawk.

Could we say that the new German coalition is more hawkish than before, much more hawkish?

What is the change that you see between Berlin and Berlin in the handing of the chancery to Friedrich and Maritz.

Good evening to you.

Hello, John.

I mean, I wouldn't say that it's much more hawkish.

I mean, I think what we've seen in the, oh my God, more than three years now since the beginning

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