The Ambassador of Ukraine called Scholz an “insulted sausage”

German Chancellor Scholz said that he could not visit Kyiv because of Ukraine's refusal to accept President Steinmeier. According to him,

Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk called German Chancellor Olaf Scholz "an offended liver sausage" after he called the refusal of the Ukrainian authorities to receive German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier an obstacle to his visit to Kyiv. Spiegel reports.

“Pretending to be an insulted liver sausage is not very state-of-the-art,” he said.

Nevertheless, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will continue to be happy to receive Scholz in Kyiv, Melnyk stressed.

But, according to him, more than symbolic visits, Kyiv is waiting for the German government to approve the proposal of the Bundestag on the supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine.

Scholz opposed the hasty delivery of heavy weapons to Kyiv Politics

On May 3, Scholz, in an interview with ZDF, said that he could not come to Kyiv until the German president visited there. He considered it "quite a notable event" that Ukraine refused to accept Steinmeier. “It prevents [arrival],” he said.

Scholz recalled that Berlin provides financial and military assistance to Kyiv and can become a potential guarantor of its security. “You can’t say: the president cannot come,” the chancellor concluded.

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Steinmeier wanted to visit Kyiv along with the presidents of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in April, but said that the Ukrainian side refused him a visit. According to Bild, the reason was the German President's "close ties" with RUSSIA in recent years. Scholz then said that Kyiv's decision was annoying.

Melnik has already criticized Germany for the fact that not a single representative of the federal government of the country has visited Ukraine since the start of hostilities. In his opinion, this indicates the "sluggishness of German policy."

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At the end of April, the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, by a majority vote supported a document calling on the government to supply heavy weapons to Ukraine.

However, Scholz felt that Germany should not make hasty decisions to send heavy weapons to Ukraine. He noted that Berlin would not supply Western-made battle tanks to Kiev until the United States and other allies did so.

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