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Speaking by videoconference to the German Parliament, the Ukrainian president castigated Berlin’s obsession with business at the expense of human rights and real support for Ukrainians.
In front of the House of Commons on March 8, Volodymyr Zelensky addressed MPs, quoting Churchill and Shakespeare. Before the US Congress on March 16, he referred to the dream of Martin Luther King. This Thursday, in his address by videoconference to the German Federal Assembly (Bundestag), the Ukrainian president drew up a real indictment.
If Zelensky symbolically asked Chancellor Olaf Scholz to shoot a “Wall” in the center of Europe, it was the better to reproach him for having contributed to his erection. Like Angela Merkel, of whom he was minister, Olaf Scholz has always favored the policy of “Germany firstat the expense of Ukraine’s freedom. “You have been told for years that Nord Stream 2 was a weapon”, railed the Ukrainian president in front of the deputies. Berlin refused until the last moment to stop the “putin gas pipeline…