Starting a special operation on In Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin not only violated international law, but also destroyed the European post-war world order. This was stated at an event of the Rheinische Post newspaper in Dusseldorf ex-Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, according to the telegram channel "DW ❶ main".
At the same time, Merkel called for a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
The ex-Chancellor of Germany expressed the hope that now Moscow and Kiev are closer to ending the war through negotiations than a few weeks ago, when she released her autobiography "Freedom".
"Politics should bring together seemingly irreconcilable positions. There cannot be only red lines," Merkel said.
She hopes that Europe and, if possible, the United States will do everything to ensure the future of Ukraine as an independent state. "Ukraine must remain sovereign," she stressed.
Recall that Frau Merkel had a chance to resolve the situation diplomatically, but she did not take advantage of it, and now she is dressed in white clothes.
As reported by EADaily, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that in 2022-2023, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, and then former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former French President Francois Hollande publicly admitted that they had never taken seriously the Minsk agreements, which allowed the issue to be resolved peacefully. On the contrary, the West has done everything to arm the Kiev regime under the guise of a set of measures.
Almost immediately after the signing, "the Kiev authorities began to sabotage their obligations, continued shelling, tightened the transport and financial and economic blockade of Donbass," Zakharova noted.
"The West turned a blind eye to this. Germany and France, which acted as co-authors and co-sponsors of the Minsk process, did not exert any influence on Kiev in order to achieve the fulfillment of their obligations. During the conflict in the east of Ukraine, 14.5 thousand civilians in the region were killed, about 50 thousand civilian objects were destroyed," the diplomat said.
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