The Government of Olaf Scholz is criticized in Ukraine and the United States, particularly for its refusal to deliver weapons to the Ukrainian government.
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Does Germany show itself too complacent with Russia in the Ukrainian crisis? Repeated to Kiev, the accusation also circulates in several Western capitals, including in Berlin, where part of the opposition to the Government of Olaf Scholz takes the opportunity to highlight certain contradictions of its foreign policy.
Several reproaches are made to Germany. The first concerns his refusal to deliver weapons to Ukraine, unlike the United States, the United Kingdom and the Baltic countries. On the Sky News chain, the Ukrainian ambassador in London, Vadym Prystaiko, convened the memory of the Second World War, saying that the Ukrainians “still remember” from what Germany “had undergo our territory” during This period.
In Germany, the wrath of Ukrainians has been actively relayed by the two dailies of the conservative press group Axel Springer: Die Welt, who did an interview with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmyro Kuleba, where he said to himself. “Disappointed” that Berlin refuses to deliver defensive weapons to his country; and Bild, which has published a Kiev Mayor Tribune, the former Vitali Klitschko boxer, accusing Germany of “non-assistance to person in danger” and “betrayal with respect to friends in a dramatic situation” .
From now on in the opposition, the German Christian-Democrats (CDU) have seized this theme. Appellant Olaf Scholz to “behave as a leader” vis-à-vis an ally country threatened with invasion, they also favored arms deliveries to Ukraine, which they were fighting yet when They were in the government, just a few months ago.
Diplomatic Minicruit
It is in this context that an exit from the leader of the German Navy, Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach, brought water to the mill of those who judge the Government of Olaf Scholz too low screw -Ic of the Kremlin. At a meeting of a reflection group that was held on Friday, January 21 in New Delhi, whose content circulated on social networks, Schönbach not only qualified “ineptitude” the idea that Russia could invade Ukraine, but also estimated that the Crimean Peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, was “party and would not come back” in the giron of Ukraine.
Although Mr. Schönbach quickly made his MEA Culpa, qualifying his declarations of “faults” before submitting his resignation the next day, the incident personally caused a diplomatic minichrise with Ukraine, who without delay convened German ambassador, Anka Feldhusen, after these comments deemed “absolutely unacceptable”.
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