The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv. File photoMOSCOW, Aug 18 Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko accused the Russian service of the German Deutsche Welle* of publishing materials with a Russian position and called on Germany to respond to this. «We call on German partners to respond to the narratives of Russian propaganda, which are distributed in DW* materials,» Nikolenko wrote on Facebook**.In Ukraine, a case was opened against a journalist for anti-Ukrainian publications. As examples, he cited publications that said that «one mistake by Ukrainian defenders can provoke a nuclear catastrophe at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant,» and also that «a ban on Russians from entering the West will not help defeat (Russian President Vladimir ) Putin». Ukraine has repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction with the German authorities. In June, Aleksey Arestovich, an adviser to the head of Vladimir Zelensky’s office, stated that Ukraine had not yet seen the five thousand helmets promised by Germany. And the former Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk, even posted on social networks a photograph of a snail with a cartridge glued to the shell, the image was accompanied by the inscription «German weapons for Ukraine are on their way.» interest in Ukraine. In particular, Telegraph columnist Richard Kemp wrote that Western allies could lose interest in supporting Kyiv in three months, as they plunge into domestic economic problems. And Politico, citing data from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, which maintains the Ukraine Support Tracker database of assistance to Kyiv, reported that during July, for the first time since the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, the six largest European countries did not offer Kyiv any military assistance. * Media acting as foreign agents in Russia.** The activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist. Europe because of the position of Ukraine
