Michael Kretschmer is no longer invited to Ukraine. “You are not wanted. Full stop,” writes Ukraine’s outgoing ambassador to Germany, Andrij Melnyk. The reason is the statements of the prime minister of Saxony. Pi
Ukraine’s outgoing ambassador to Germany, Andrij Melnyk, has withdrawn an invitation from the CDU politician to his home country because of Saxony’s Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer’s statements about the war in Ukraine. “With your absurd rhetoric about freezing the war, you are playing into Putin’s hands and fueling Russia’s aggression,” Melnyk tweeted this morning. Therefore, he said, his invitation to Kretschmer to visit Ukraine was “cancelled.”
“You are not wanted. Period,” added the ambassador. Melnyk was reacting to statements made by the head of the Saxony government on ZDF’s “Markus Lanz” show on Wednesday. Kretschmer had said it was important to “defend the fact that this war needs to freeze, that we need a ceasefire, that we need negotiations to end this war”. However, he said he saw “very little of that in the public debate”.
The Ukrainian ambassador Melnyk invites out the head of the government of Saxony Kretschmer.
Michael Kretschmer is no longer invited to Ukraine. “You are not wanted. Full stop,” writes Ukraine’s outgoing ambassador to Germany, Andrij Melnyk. The reason is the statements of the prime minister of Saxony. More in the live ticker.
Ukraine’s outgoing ambassador to Germany, Andrij Melnyk, has withdrawn an invitation from the CDU politician to his home country because of Saxony’s Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer’s statements about the war in Ukraine. “With your absurd rhetoric about freezing the war, you are playing into Putin’s hands and fueling Russia’s aggression,” Melnyk wrote on Twitter on Sunday morning. Therefore, he said, his invitation to Kretschmer to visit Ukraine was “cancelled.”
“You are not wanted. Period,” added the ambassador. Melnyk was reacting to statements made by the head of the Saxony government on ZDF’s “Markus Lanz” show on Wednesday. Kretschmer had said it was important to “defend the fact that this war needs to freeze, that we need a ceasefire, that we need negotiations to end this war”. However, he said he saw “very little of that in the public debate”.
On the show, Kretschmer condemned “this terrible crime” in connection with the invasion of Ukraine ordered by Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin. “Russia must not win the war, that is absolutely right,” the CDU politician stressed. However, this war “must not be attempted to be decided on the battlefield, for that could have such disastrous consequences for us all.”
Mr. Kretschmer emphasized that diplomacy offers the possibility to talk to each other, even “if you have completely different views, if you are enemies.”
Melnyk has been ambassador to Germany since late 2014 and has repeatedly caused trouble with his sharp criticism of German politicians. For example, he called Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) an “afflicted liver” when the head of the German government initially refused to make his own trip to Kyiv after Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s invitation from Ukraine.
In early July, Ukrainian head of state Volodymyr Selenskyj signed a decree dismissing Melnyk from Berlin. He will hand over the reins to his successor in October.
Source: Capital
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