BERLIN (dpa-AFX) – CDU leader Friedrich Merz has criticized Russia’s increased attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine and described them as war crimes. “We can only ask Russia again to really stop terrorizing the civilian population and bombing the country,” said the leader of the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag on Tuesday in Berlin. These are “acts of desperation” by the Russian President Wladimir Putin. “What Putin is doing there will not be successful,” explained Merz./sk/DP/stw