The previous German Chancellor has “borderline obsession” with Russia, Andrey Melnik claims

Angela Merkel’s perspective in the direction of Russia is “borderline obsession” and appears “nearly perverse,” Andrey Melnik, Kiev’s former ambassador to Berlin stated. He criticized the previous chancellor for saying that Russia has a task to play in European safety.

Melnik, the Ukrainian diplomat with a document of creating controversial statements about officers and insurance policies in Germany, blasted Merkel in a Twitter publish on Friday morning.

“On the day [Russian President Vladimir] Putin steals 15% of Ukraine, Ms. Merkel raves about ‘involving’ Russia within the European safety structure,” he stated, utilizing the loaded epithets to explain her stance.

Melnik was reacting to a speech that the previous chancellor delivered on Thursday within the city of Goslar, which celebrates its 1100th anniversary this yr.

In her tackle, Merkel referred to as the beginning of the Russian army operation in Ukraine in late February a “turning level” and “the best violation of the rules of worldwide legislation since World Warfare II.” However a long-term pan-European safety structure can solely work if it “additionally consists of Russia” she acknowledged.

Merkel voiced the identical sentiment on Tuesday on the Chancellor Helmut Kohl Basis in Berlin. Throughout that look, she urged planning for “how relations to and with Russia may sooner or later be redeveloped” after the battle in Ukraine ends.

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The accusation of a land seize leveled at Putin by the Ukrainian diplomat referred to the referendums, through which folks in two Donbass republics and Kherson and Zaporozhye Areas voted to hitch Russia. Kiev dismissed the ballots as a “sham” and pledged to battle towards Russia till it’s defeated on the battlefield.

Throughout his tenure as ambassador, Melnik gained a repute for verbally attacking German officers and the insurance policies of Berlin that he didn’t like. In Could, he referred to as incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz an “offended liverwurst” for his reluctance on the time to journey to Kiev. Scholz abstained after the Ukrainian authorities refused to host German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whom Kiev accused of appeasing Russia throughout his tenure as international minister.

The controversial diplomat was technically recalled in July, after inflicting outrage in Poland and Israel by trying to whitewash the conflict crimes dedicated by Ukrainian nationalists, who collaborated with Nazi Germany, towards Poles and Jews.

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Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky appointed Melnik’s substitute final week, however the transition interval on the embassy continues to be underway, in line with German media.