Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, known for his derogatory and often abusive attacks on country leaders, mocked German Chancellor Olaf Scholz over this week’s strike action in Germany.

“Strikes in Germany: farmers have blocked travel across much of the country. The subsidies have ended and the astronomical sums spent on Ukraine continue to rise. And Germany is the main financier,” said the current vice-president of the Security Council of Russia, Medvedev, in a post on X.

If things continue like this, Medvedev said Ukrainian nationalists could soon export their protests to Berlin.

“In that case, it’s very doubtful that Scholtz, the sausage-chancellor, will last,” he stated in a condescending tone.

In May 2022, the then ambassador of Ukraine in Berlin, Andriy Melnyk, had used a typical German derogatory expression in response to Chancellor Scholz’s statement that he was not planning to visit Kiev at the time, due to the description of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier as unwanted by the Ukrainian side. “Pretending to be offended doesn’t sound very much like the attitude of a political leader,” Melnik commented at the time, describing Scholz in a popular German expression as an “offended sausage” (“beledigte Leberwurst”).

Serious problems in transportation have been caused since yesterday, Monday, in Germany by the mobilization of farmers, who have blocked road junctions with their tractors and trucks throughout the country, protesting the cuts in fuel subsidies.

Moscow has repeatedly argued that Western aid to Ukraine and sanctions against Russia have led to economic difficulties in Germany.

Since the outbreak of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Medvedev has become one of the hardliners in the Russian leadership.