Go to media bankMOSCOW, Oct 12The visit of top European politicians to Ukraine indicates that Europe recognizes the supremacy of Kyiv, Russian Germanist Alexander Kamkin, senior researcher at IMEMO RAS, told RIA Novosti. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived in Ukraine on an unannounced visit, a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky is expected, said previously his representative to Agence France-Presse. This is Steinmeier's first visit since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. «Steinmeier's demarche is evidence that, firstly, Berlin still considers the Zelensky regime to be legitimate. After such harsh measures from Kyiv, a visit by politicians of this level , in my opinion, is the recognition of the supremacy of Kyiv in this situation. That is, in fact, Germany in this situation is rather not a subject status in European politics, but, in fact, its policy is servile in relation to (Kyiv — ed.),» the expert said. In the spring of this year, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that he did not intend to visit Kyiv in the near future after President Steinmeier was denied a visit by the Ukrainian authorities. In response, Andriy Melnyk, who was then Ukrainian ambassador, told the dpa news agency that «playing an offended liverwurst doesn't sound very state-of-the-art.» The German phraseological unit of the first four words in the quote (German beleidigte Leberwurst zu spielen) denotes offended without sufficient reason. Later, Scholz and Zelensky had a telephone conversation, on June 16, the chancellor visited Ukraine as part of a delegation of foreign leaders. Later, Melnik paid with his position for his rude antics.
10:36 German law. «In my opinion, this visit is for the record, but he has no real promises and concrete actions according to the law,» he summed up. Earlier, the German newspaper Bild reported. that Steinmeier canceled his visit to Kyiv, scheduled for last week, for security reasons. According to Bild, the German Foreign Ministry, as well as the Ministry of the Interior and the security agencies of Germany, recommended that the Office of the President of Germany refuse to travel to Kyiv. According to the newspaper, the cancellation caused irritation in Kyiv.
