“Blasphemy” in the cathedral
Russia insults German ambassador
December 10, 2023, 11:17 a.m
Moscow appears annoyed. The reason is a statement by the German ambassador that war is “not inevitable.” The Russian Foreign Ministry is now expressing strong criticism and giving Lambsdorff advice.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has sharply criticized the German ambassador in Moscow, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, for his commemoration of the war victims. “It is a great pity that the German ambassador forgot to ‘thank’ his government for the regular arms deliveries to the area of the Ukrainian conflict,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel. Lambsdorff had previously remembered the victims of war in Ukraine and the Middle East at a Christmas concert in Moscow in front of several hundred spectators and described war as “not inevitable”.
Zakharova then accused the diplomat of duplicity. After all, the government in Berlin has never used Christmas as an opportunity for official calls for peace. “In the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception he should be praying and not committing blasphemy,” she complained.
Just a few days ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed the federal government for a new ice age in a speech in the Kremlin. This is not beneficial for Germany, Russia or the entire European continent. However, the Russian president did not see that the trigger for this ice age and a significantly worsened situation in Europe was the war of aggression against Ukraine with tens of thousands of deaths. Instead, the 71-year-old complained that the relationship between Berlin and Moscow had been frozen “not on our initiative.”
Russia began its war of aggression against Ukraine in February 2022, which has since claimed tens of thousands of victims, including many civilians. However, Moscow blames the West for the war. In Russian propaganda, the main reason for the many victims is not its own attack, but rather Western arms deliveries to the invaded Ukraine.