Russia’s war against Ukraine is “a break with many of what we considered granted is a fracture of the era,” said Germany President Frank -Walter Steinmeier, speaking with a speech at the opening of the Congress of the Association of German Trade Unions, Deutsche Welle reports.
May 8, the Germany celebrates the 77th anniversary of the country’s liberation from National Socialism.
Steinmeier sharply criticized the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, noting that, having attacked Ukraine, Putin “finally destroys the basis of the European world order”: “When he talks about fascism,” denacing, “he is lying.” This is a “treacherous and cynical distortion of history”, according to the president of Germany.
According to him, the Putin’s equalization of the fight against National Socialism “with its cruel, illegal, aggressive war against Ukraine” is also a treacherous and cynical abuse of history. “” Under the pretext of “denacing”, the President of Russia “kills even those people, Who went through hell: including those who survived the Holocaust, ”the head of the German state emphasized.
At the same time, the President of the Federal Republic of Germany admitted that he was personally mistaken and did not believe that Putin was ready to lead his own country to political, economic and moral ruin.
Steinmeier once again expressed support to Ukraine and said that Germany does it “with complete conviction and with all his heart”, like its European neighbors.