The war in Ukraine is Russia’s fault, says Angela Merkel: Barbarism must be stopped – Topky.sk

“This is a brutal attack that violates international law and for which there is no excuse,” Merkel said on the sidelines of the Russian military invasion. According to her, the attack was a “big mistake” by Russia. However, according to the former German chancellor, it was not possible to create a security architecture that would prevent war. “Naturally, I asked myself what we could have missed? I keep asking these questions,” Merkel said, reiterating that she considered the Russian military invasion a “great tragedy.” She also said she was not naive about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “hatred” of the Western democratic model. She said she had warned her colleagues several times that Putin wanted to destroy the European Union, which she saw as a sister project to NATO. Merkel added that she would in no way apologize for her efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the growing tensions while she was still an office. “Diplomacy isn’t wrong just because it didn’t work. So I don’t see why I should say it was wrong, and I won’t apologize for it,” she added. According to the former chancellor, she has “full confidence” in the new federal government and also trusts her successor in office, Olaf Scholz. According to her, the takeover of power was smooth. According to her, people who are not “newcomers” and know the situation work in the new federal cabinet. When asked how she was doing, Merkel replied that she was doing “very well” personally. Nevertheless, “her mind employs” the Russian war against Ukraine. In this context, she is depressed. However, according to his own words, he is coping very well with the new stage. Angela Merkel has been a German federal chancellor for 16 years, the DPA recalled. During the interview, she said that by the end of her last term, it was clear to her that it was time to withdraw from political life. Photo gallery (2) Source: SITA / Sergey Dolzhenko / Pool Photo via AP Merkel broke her silence in her speech last week and condemned the Russian invasion. She said she supported the efforts of the German government, the EU, the US, NATO, the G7 and the UN to find a solution to “end this barbaric war of aggression by Russia”. After the start of the Russian invasion, the conservative-oriented ex-chancellor faced criticism for trying to develop relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin during her time in high politics. Merkel, who speaks fluent Russian and grew up in the former communist East Germany, has been criticized by the United States and other countries for supporting the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was to supply Russian natural gas directly to Germany. Her successor, Olaf Scholz, finally stopped the project two days before the Russian invasion. Ukrainian Ambassador Criticizes Merkel Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk sharply criticized former Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday for justifying her policy toward Russia during the 16 years of rule on Tuesday. The DPA news agency reported. Unfortunately, in her first interview since the change of German government six months ago, there was “no hint of self-criticism,” Melnik told the DPA on Wednesday. “The ex-office’s statements about the infallibility of her Russian policy and about her overly lenient approach to dictator (Russian President Vladimir) Putin are worrying,” the Ukrainian ambassador said. The ambassador added that Ukrainians are convinced that Germany’s attitude towards Ukraine’s NATO membership and its prospects for EU accession, its long-standing refusal to send weapons to Ukraine after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and its “ruthless enforcement” of the Nord Steram 2 until the beginning of this war – all this “encouraged Putin to attack Ukraine”.