The Ukrainian ambassador Oleksii Makeiev sharply criticized the participation of the Russian ambassador Sergei Netschajew at a memorial event on the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Seelower Höhen. The fact that Netschajew bore the Sankt Georgs band, a Russian military badge, was “a clear mockery of the victims-the victim of 80 years ago and the victims of today,” said Makeieev of the German Press Agency.
Makeieev sees relativization of Russian war crimes
He pointed out that 55 civilians, including 11 children, were most recently killed in the Russian attacks in Krywyj Rih and Sumy. “The man with the Georgs loop stands for the state who bears the sole responsibility for these war crimes and allows itself to describe the future German Chancellor as” Nazi “, said Makeieev. «Anyone who takes part in the commemoration with him can be instrumentalized and relativized Russia today’s war crimes. ”
Netschajew took part in the memory on the Seelower heights east of Berlin on Wednesday. There, around 33,000 soldiers of the Red Army, as well as 16,000 German and 2,000 Polish soldiers, fell there at a greatest battle of the war on German soil. Before the memorial event, the Federal Foreign Office had advised against the state, municipalities and memorials that the participation of representatives of Russia and Belarus at memorial events at the end of the Second World War allow. Netschajew was not actively invited by the organizers, but was also not prevented from participating, but greeted in a friendly manner.
Georgs band banned in Ukraine
From 2005, the Sankt Georgs band developed into Russia as the most important symbol of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. The orange-black band also increasingly means support for President Vladimir Putin’s course. That’s why the symbol is in the Ukraine Forbidden, other states of the former Soviet Union restrict the use. Historically, the tape goes back to the military order of Saint Georg in the Tsarist Empire, the Soviet Union introduced it again in the 1942 war.
Medvedev described Merz as “Nazi”
Former Russian President Dmitri Medledew had probably referred to the future Chancellor Friedrich Merz as “Nazi” on Monday after the CDU leader openly showed himself to deliver the March missile Taurus to Ukraine and declared that a destruction of the Ukraine Crimean Bridge could use. “Think twice, Nazi!”, Wrote Medvedev, who is now Vice -President of the Russian National Security Council, on the platform X.
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