German flag. Archive photoMOSCOW, August 18Berlin is delaying the fulfillment of its obligations to the blockade of Leningrad, Ivan Nechaev, deputy director of the information and press department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said at a briefing. under threat of disruption,» Nechaev said. The German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) suspended without explanation the fulfillment of its obligations to equip the sterilization department of the hospital with the necessary new equipment.
"We expect urgent measures from the German side to resume the implementation of projects. Further delay poses a threat to health, first of all, to hospital patients, including veterans of the blockade of a very advanced age", the diplomat emphasized.
Nechaev added that the German government is obliged, within the framework of the organization, to make payments to the blockade survivors of Leningrad, but Berlin continues to provide them » exclusively to those who are under the siege of Jewish nationality».In St. Petersburg, veterans and blockade survivors received payments on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Road of Life «We continue to regularly receive many complaints about this from them (blockade survivors — ed.). For our part, we constantly raised the question of assigning comparable humanitarian individual payments to everyone now living blockade survivors without their discrimination on national grounds and artificial division into ethnic groups. They called for finding a solution that would meet the principles of justice, morality and morality, but, unfortunately, it is not yet possible to reach official Berlin, «summed up the representative of the German Foreign Ministry. in recognition of their historical responsibility for the blockade, they decided in 2019 to allocate 12 million euros to modernize the hospital for war veterans in St. Petersburg, as well as to create a Russian-German Meeting Center for the support of historical memory in the city on the Neva.
The government approved the rules for paying veterans of the blockade