German government officials refused to comment after Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht faced calls to resign on Monday, following a New Year’s speech in which she refers to the Ukraine war while fireworks go off in the background. Lambrecht shared a video on Sunday on an Instagram account marked as private in which she took stock of the year 2022. Referring to “a war raging in the middle of Europe” while also thanking emergency workers, her sentences were at times difficult to hear due to the whistling of New Year’s Eve rockets and firecrackers going off nearby. “I don’t see any reason to e…