{"id":38972,"date":"2022-06-02T12:16:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T09:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=38972"},"modified":"2022-06-02T12:17:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T09:17:48","slug":"merkel-expressed-support-for-ukraine-after-months-of-silence-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=38972","title":{"rendered":"Merkel expressed support for Ukraine after months of silence &#8211; Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.&nbsp;UkraineGate , 2 , June, 2022 | Society.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After months of silence, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed solidarity with Ukraine and called the &#8220;barbaric&#8221; war launched by Russia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Merkel said she would not give advice from the side, but wished the Ukrainian government to find an end to &#8220;this barbaric war&#8221;, one of the participants in the farewell ceremony with the president of the Confederation of German Trade Unions DGB, where she spoke, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, actor Ulrich Mattes, who is a friend of Merkel, told Stern magazine that the war worries her, but she does not want to intervene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I suspect she doesn&#8217;t want to be a kind of second chancellor,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some other German politicians, including former Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, acknowledged that the policy of reconciliation with Russia may have been &#8220;too optimistic.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Merkel&#8217;s policies have drawn criticism from the United States and other countries for supporting the construction of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline, which is designed to deliver Russian gas directly to Germany.&nbsp;The former chancellor also stressed the need to continue talks with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin even after Russia temporarily occupied Crimea and Donetsk and Luhansk regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Merkel issued a statement stressing that there was no excuse for blatant violations of international law.&nbsp;Months of her silence on the situation in Ukraine have caused outrage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Before<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/uk\/news\/1979426-golova-mzs-nimechchini-zaklikala-krayini-yes-prodovzhuvati-pidtrimuvati-ukrayinu-u-viyni-z-rosiyeyu\">called on EU countries to<\/a>&nbsp;continue to support Ukraine in the fight against Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/\">Ukrgate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV.&nbsp;UkraineGate , 2 , June, 2022 | Society.&nbsp; After months of silence, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed solidarity with Ukraine and called the &#8220;barbaric&#8221; war launched by Russia.&nbsp; Details Merkel said she would not give advice from the side, but wished the Ukrainian government to find an end to &#8220;this barbaric war&#8221;, one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":38983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11447],"tags":[447,609,886,996],"class_list":["post-38972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-society","tag-germany","tag-merkel","tag-support","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38972","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=38972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38990,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38972\/revisions\/38990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}