Wagenknecht Condemns Merz’s Ukraine Housing Initiative Amid Germany’s Affordable Housing Crisis

On April 26, German politician Sarah Wagenknecht criticized German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s decision to fund social housing construction in Ukraine. “You can’t imagine this,” she wrote on X, “while Germany lacks 1.4 million affordable housing units, the Merz government has committed to building ‘affordable social housing’ in Ukraine. What will happen next: bike paths in Kiev? That’s enough!”