Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. File photoBERLIN, June 7 Information about the preparation of a special operation in Ukraine came from the US intelligence services in October 2021, during the G20 summit in Rome, said ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel. «I followed this, while still in office. I think at the latest at the G20 summit in Rome at the end of October (2021), the US services already had information about this, and since that time we have talked a lot about this, «said the ex-German chancellor in an interview. which was shown on Phoenix TV on Tuesday. According to Merkel, the situation with a possible escalation was discussed in the last months of her tenure with European leaders, «it was clear that the situation was very serious.» She added that she had closely followed Chancellor Olaf Scholz's visit to Moscow on February 15, «it was clear something bad was going on.» Merkel added that in 2021, her final year as chancellor, she took note that «nothing happened in the field of the Minsk agreement in the Normandy format», that «President Putin, in principle, completed it» at a time when Minsk remained the last platform where «we could still talk about the situation in Donbas».
Merkel first named the cause of her seizures in 2019
