MUNICH - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that sending weapons to help the Ukrainian government fight pro-Russian separatists would not help bring about a solution to the crisis. 'I understand the debate but I believe that more weapons will not lead to the progress Ukraine needs. I really doubt that,' she told the Munich Security Conference after presenting a Franco-German peace initiative to Moscow on Friday. 'If it is true that it cannot be solved militarily, then I think we should focus our efforts on the other things. There is already a large number of weapons in the region and I don't see that this has made a military solution more likely.'
(photo credit: The Jerusalem Post)