Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany Andriy MelnykMOSCOW, May 27. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lacks courage and leadership, quotes Bild the words of Ukrainian Ambassador to Berlin Andriy Melnyk. and leadership,” the diplomat said. Scholz said that the West will not accept the «imposed peace» on Ukraine weapons to Ukraine.
«Militarily, Berlin is simply letting Kyiv down,» he summed up.
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Earlier, Scholz said that he did not intend to go to Kyiv in the near future after the Ukrainian authorities refused to receive German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier for a visit. In response, Melnik said that «playing an offended liverwurst does not sound very state-of-the-art.» He subsequently refused to apologize.
Melnik has repeatedly lashed out at Berlin with criticism. So, recently in an interview with the German media group Funke, he expressed disappointment with the fact that «the promised 15 Gepard anti-aircraft self-propelled guns can be delivered at the earliest at the end of July, and another 15 only at the end of August» . According to Melnik, Berlin is able to supply Ukraine with at least a hundred Marder infantry fighting vehicles from the stocks of German industry and more than 30 Marders from the stocks of the Bundeswehr, as well as 88 Leopard 1 tanks. Poland explained why Germany does not want a «victory» for Ukraine As Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted, any arms shipments for Ukraine will become a legitimate target for Russia. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov pointed out that pumping Ukraine with weapons from the West does not contribute to the success of the negotiations and will have a negative effect. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass.