FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl is raging because of Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s (ÖVP) visit to Ukraine and the sanctions against warmongering Vladimir Putin.
For 45 days, Russia has been waging a war of aggression in Ukraine and is said to have not shied away from atrocities such as the bloodbath in Bucha. But the fact that Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) traveled to Ukraine for a solidarity visit on Friday, sees FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl as “a wrong and, above all, anti-neutrality focus”. Nehammer “should rather take care of the current major problems in his own country,” said Kickl.
“In truth, the Chancellor is currently behaving like a ‘Klitschko fanboy'”
The visit makes the liberal politician really rage: “In truth, the Chancellor is currently behaving like a ‘Klitschko fanboy’, instead of professionally leading the crisis management in Austria from the top of the government” and “his permanent commitment and whipping for sanctions against Russia is destroying thousands of jobs in Austria and also the prosperity of millions of people,” Kickl said in a press release on Saturday.
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Nehammer’s visit to the Ukraine and to the Ukrainian President Volodimir Selenksi was “a further expression of ‘a complete farewell to the active Austrian policy of neutrality’, which should actually see its task in mediation for a speedy end to this terrible war. Nehammer, however, destroys with his ill-conceived Action willfully our legacy of neutrality, which has been built up over decades,” says Kickl.
“We are not neutral when it comes to naming crimes”
“We are not neutral when it comes to naming crimes,” Nehammer emphasized in Ukraine. Nehammer told Selenksi that he was grateful that we were able to meet “in these terrible times”. The Russian Federation’s war of aggression was completely “unacceptable”: “Austria is a neutral country and part of the EU. Militarily neutral – but not neutral when it comes to naming crimes and going where injustice is happening.”
