Ambassador to Ukraine makes serious accusations against Merkel: "No one was as close to Putin as she was"
Created: 04/14/2022 13:13
By: Cindy Boden
Andrij Melnyk, Ambassador of Ukraine, and ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel (montage) © Carsten Koall/Michael Kappeler/dpa
The Ukrainian ambassador is currently known for his harsh statements to German politicians.
He also has a lot to say about Angela Merkel.
Berlin - Not only Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier gets a lot of criticism from the Ukraine.
Serious allegations have also been made against ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel.
When asked in an interview in the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
whether she could have prevented the war, the Ukrainian ambassador Andriy Melnyk replied: "I think so.
We trusted Angela Merkel almost blindly.”
There would have been a huge amount of confidence in believing that she was better at assessing and managing things.
“No one was as close to Putin as she personally and the Germans, also as mediators in the Normandy format.
No one knew better than she how tense the relationship between Russia and Ukraine remained and that Putin does not want an agreement but the destruction of my homeland." and against arms sales to Ukraine.”
Ukraine-News: Melnyk wants a statement from Merkel - "It's not about assigning blame"
Melnyk wishes - "also for Germany" - that Merkel speaks out.
"It's not about assigning blame.
It's about understanding how it all went wrong.”
But on Monday (April 11), when asked by the German Press Agency, it was said that Merkel currently does not want to comment on her Russia policy.
There were even calls from her own party, the CDU, to do so.
Merkel had previously stated that she stood by her decisions in connection with the 2008 NATO summit.
She had already strongly condemned the Russian attack on Ukraine in a written statement and backed Chancellor Olaf Scholz's efforts to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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