{"id":38515,"date":"2022-05-27T14:15:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=38515"},"modified":"2022-05-27T14:15:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:15:54","slug":"berlin-fails-ukraine-melnyk-criticized-scholzs-speech-in-davos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=38515","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Berlin fails Ukraine&#8221;: Melnyk criticized Scholz&#8217;s speech in Davos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.UkraineGate , 27 , \u00a0May ,2022<\/strong> | <strong>Political News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany Andriy Melnyk criticized the speech of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the World Economic Forum in Davos.\u00a0He stated that Berlin was bringing Kyiv down militarily,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melnyk noted that Ukrainians hoped to hear in this speech what concrete steps the German ruling coalition would take to win this war, but said that the speech did not live up to expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Unfortunately, this was a report that cannot be discussed, especially regarding the immediate supply of heavy weapons from Germany to suppress Russia&#8217;s massive offensive in the Donbas. In military terms, Ukraine is simply let down by Berlin,&#8221; the ambassador said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Melnyk, the &#8220;mega-important&#8221; topic of EU candidates &#8220;did not send any encouraging signals to Ukrainians.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On May 26, Scholz&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/uk\/news\/1978624-putinu-ne-mozhna-dozvolyati-diktuvati-umovi-miru-kantsler-frn\">addressed<\/a>&nbsp;the World Economic Summit in Davos.&nbsp;He was expected to respond to Ukraine&#8217;s request to increase support, but the chancellor said he was convinced that &#8220;Putin will not win the war&#8221;, in particular because of &#8220;the impressive opposition of the Ukrainian army and population.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, at the beginning of his speech, he said that Russia is a &#8220;nuclear superpower&#8221;, writes Bild.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Before<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Europe for its position on Ukraine, saying that Kyiv\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/uk\/news\/1978406-mi-ne-bachimo-yednosti-zelenskiy-rozkritikuvav-yevropu-cherez-pozitsiyu-schodo-ukrayini\">does not see the unity of Western countries<\/a>\u00a0on this issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/\">Ukrgate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV.UkraineGate , 27 , \u00a0May ,2022 | Political News. Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany Andriy Melnyk criticized the speech of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the World Economic Forum in Davos.\u00a0He stated that Berlin was bringing Kyiv down militarily,\u00a0 Details Melnyk noted that Ukrainians hoped to hear in this speech what concrete steps the German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":38535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10750],"tags":[5295,2399,1064],"class_list":["post-38515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-news","tag-berlin","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38542,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38515\/revisions\/38542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}