German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (64) is reprimanded by Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin (70). Moscow has rejected the chancellor’s offer to resume bilateral cooperation in ending Russia’s war in Ukraine.
He says very clearly: “We will not ask for anything, and the politicians in Germany should make that clear once and for all.” The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this in a statement on its website on Wednesday. At the same time, the ministry blamed Scholz for the rift in economic and energy cooperation between the two countries.
Russia blames Germany
“Nor did the head of government of the Federal Republic of Germany explain why Berlin so timidly and cowardly declined to investigate the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines, which cut off the German economy from cheap Russian natural gas.” said. Scholz’s omissions testified to the narrow-mindedness of German politics.
In his speech at the anniversary of the German Economic Commission for Eastern European Economic Relations, Scholz condemned Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, but Moscow offered to resume economic cooperation if the war ended.
Putin ‘fundamentally miscalculated’
Scholz recently sharply criticized Putin. “No of Putin’s plans worked,” Scholz said in a government statement in the Bundestag on Wednesday.
Putin had “fundamentally miscalculated”. He believed that his troops would overrun Ukraine within days. He assumed that Europe and the democratic West were too divided to help Ukraine effectively. “He thought he could dry up European solidarity by turning off the gas tap.” (euc/SDA)