Kay-Achim Schönbach said the idea that Russia wanted to invade Ukraine was nonsense.
Mr Schönbach said on Saturday that he had resigned from his role "with immediate effect" in order to "avert further damage".
He added that the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014, "is gone and will never come back".Is Russia preparing to invade Ukraine? Some 90 tonnes of US "lethal aid" has arrived in Ukraine, amid tensions over Russia's troop build-up on the border. The UK announced earlier this week that it was. Several other Nato members are sending military material or deploying forces.
Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht told Welt am Sonntag newspaper that Berlin had already delivered respirators to Ukraine and severely injured Ukrainian soldiers are being treated in German military hospitals.
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