Alice Weidel on Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Alice Weidel, the co-chairwoman of the Alternative for Germany party, maintains a consistently critical stance toward Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian government, often framing them as illegitimate or corrupt entities. She has vocally argued against the continued flow of German financial and military support to Kyiv, positioning her party as opposed to the current government's foreign policy direction regarding the war. Key evidence of this stance includes demanding that Ukraine and Zelenskyy's administration must pay reparations for alleged damages, such as the Nord Stream sabotage, rather than relying on German taxpayer funds.

This skepticism extends to official diplomatic engagement; she and other AfD members notably skipped a speech by the Ukrainian president to the Bundestag in a public display of dissent. The implication of her position is a sharp pivot away from mainstream German and EU consensus on supporting Ukraine's defense. Furthermore, the German far-right politician has suggested that if the US were to alter its policy, German support would likely cease, reflecting a deep ideological opposition to the current Ukrainian leadership's war efforts.