This was stated by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who held the position from 2005 to 2021 the question of his participation in the potential Ukrainian reconciliation process “was not raised”reports the TASS.
In an interview with the Italian magazine Sette, he admitted this I have no idea how the conflict in Ukraine will end.
“Eventually it will end with negotiations. Wars usually end at the negotiating table,” noted the former chancellor. “But alsodifference between forced peace – which a lot of people, myself included, don’t want to happen – and open and friendly negotiations. I have nothing else to add”.
As for her government’s policy towards Russia and Ukraine, Merkel stressed that her logic decision process “it still seems rational to her.”
“It was all to prevent a war like the conflict now unfolding. We failed, but that doesn’t mean it was wrong to try.” he observed.
After the coup in Ukraine in February 2014, mass protests began in the east of the country, where the Russian-speaking majority did not agree with the new course in Kiev. In response, in mid-April of that year, the Ukrainian authorities launched a military operation in Donbass, carrying out massive shelling of residential areas. The Minsk agreements reached in 2014-2015 were supposed to provide the basis for resolving the Donbass issue. They were signed with the mediation of the OSCE, Russia, Germany and France, the TASS recalls.
In an interview with the German weekly Die Zeit on December 7 this year, Merkel stated that the conclusion of the Minsk agreements was an attempt to give Ukraine time to strengthen. He says it belongs to everyone it was clear that the conflict was just frozen and the problem is not solved, “but it gave Ukraine precious time.” Merkel expressed doubts that NATO countries would be able to support Kiev to the extent they do now.
