German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel at the EU summit in Brussels. File photoMOSCOW, April 4Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel considers the right decision she made in 2008, when she negatively reacted to the idea of Ukraine joining NATO, dpa reported, citing a representative of the former chancellor. Volodymyr Zelensky had previously invited Merkel and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to come to the city Bucha in the Kiev region after the appearance of the video, which the Russian Defense Ministry described as a staging and a provocation. According to the press secretary of the ex-chancellor, Merkel «adheres to her decisions related to the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest.» Then, due to the position of Germany and France, NATO did not provide Ukraine with a plan of action to prepare for membership in the alliance. stopping barbarism and Russia's war against Ukraine».
MP: Stoltenberg «surrendered» plans for the accelerated admission of Ukraine to NATO Earlier, the Ukrainian authorities and the media distributed a video allegedly filmed in the city of Bucha, Kiev region, where the bodies of the dead lie on the road. Many users questioned the credibility of Kyiv's accusations against Moscow, noting that there was no blood near the bodies on the ground, and some of the dead had white armbands on their sleeves and could have been killed by Ukrainian security forces or territorial defense. Also, users noticed that the “dead” move their hands, and when looking in the rear-view mirror of the operator’s car, it seems that one of the “dead” changes position as soon as the car passes by. The Russian Defense Ministry said that all photos published by the Kiev regime and video materials allegedly showing some kind of «crimes» by Russian servicemen in the city of Bucha, Kiev region, are «another provocation.» As noted in the military department, during the time this settlement was under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, not a single local resident suffered from any violent actions. The ministry noted that all Russian units completely left Bucha on March 30, and exits from the city in the northern direction were not blocked, while the southern outskirts, including residential areas, were shelled by Ukrainian troops around the clock from large-caliber artillery, tanks and multiple launch rocket systems. 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 Kiev 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. .jpg» />Turkey predicted discord in NATO because of the «partition of Ukraine»
