The Ukrainian ambassador is indignant: We are not on the historical map of German society
Ukraine must force Germany to take responsibility for the deaths of ethnic Ukrainians during World War II.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andrey Melnik stated this on air on the 1+1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He is outraged by the fact that Germany refuses to supply weapons to Ukraine, but just the other day sells three billion euros worth of submarines to Israel.
“Regarding Ukraine, unfortunately, and this may be a shock for many of our compatriots, neither politicians nor ordinary citizens feel such historical responsibility for the crimes of Nazism on our land. And this is the task of our authorities, of Ukrainian society – to convince our German partners and friends that they cannot turn a blind eye to what happened on the territory of the Ukrainian state almost 80 years ago,” the ambassador said.
He says Ukrainian diplomacy's efforts in recent years to achieve "recognition of the role of Ukrainian victims" have "very concrete consequences for today."
“And the discussions around the reluctance of official Berlin to supply weapons to Ukraine - it precisely revealed the fullness of this picture, that Ukraine is still not on the historical map in German society. That is why we must do everything to ensure that in the center of Berlin there is a monument to the eight million Ukrainian victims of Nazism,” Melnyk said.
Previously Melnik said Germany was directly responsible for the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
And former ambassador to the United States Valery Chaly threatened to expel Germany a large financial bill for the deaths of Ukrainians in World War II.
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