“Unfortunately, Merkel has not learned from her mistakes,” said Oleksandr Merezhko, head of the foreign relations committee in the Ukrainian parliament.
The former chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel she must stop trying to justify her decisions during her tenure, which emboldened the Russian president Vladimir Putin and led to disastrous consequences for her Ukrainea Ukrainian lawmaker told POLITICO.
“Had Ukraine been given an action plan for NATO membership during the Bucharest summit (in 2008), this could have prevented further Russian aggression against Ukraine.”Oleksandr Merezhko, head of the foreign relations committee in the Ukrainian parliament, said on Friday.
Merezhko’s remarks were in response to Merkel’s comments while promoting her new book Freedom, in which she justified the decision to stop Ukraine’s 2008 NATO membership, the Minsk agreements that led to Moscow’s war freeze in Ukraine for eight years and the controversial Nord Stream gas pipelines from Russia to Europe.
Merkel has also called for a diplomatic solution to the war to be explored at some point, although Ukraine’s leadership says it cannot trust Moscow to negotiate in good faith.
“It is not only in Ukraine’s interest, but also in our own interest that Putin does not win this war”Merkel told German public broadcaster ZDF on Thursday, but “diplomatic solutions must always be considered in parallel”.
This caused an outcry in Ukraine, according to POLITICO.
“What kind of ‘return to diplomacy’ can we talk about, when such ‘diplomacy’ under the auspices of Merkel in the form of the ‘Minsk Process’ has already occurred and led to full-scale aggression?”Merezhko wondered.
According to the MP, Merkel cannot admit that she paid more attention to German economic interests than to common European security.
“Merkel took into account the interests and demands of her economic partner, Russia, more than the interests of Ukraine”said Merezhko.
Merkel has said that if not for her decisions, Putin would have invaded Ukraine much earlier.
But Merezhko said Putin launched the full-scale invasion in 2022 because he was confident he would not face any strong backlash from politicians, as with Merkel in 2014. “Unfortunately, Merkel did not learn from her mistakes”he added.
Source :Skai
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