The Russian ambassador to Germany, Sergei Nechaev, said that Western inaction during the 2014 coup in Ukraine was a factor that contributed to the return of Crimea to Russia. Thus, he answered the Ambassador of Ukraine, Andriy Melnik, who called the return of the peninsula to the Ukrainians the “duty” of the FRG on the pages of the Berliner Zeitung.
According to the diplomat, Western countries for a long time preferred not to notice what was happening in Ukraine, which, among other things, led to the need to intervene.
“What is so gladly and so wrongly called a“ democratic revolution ”actually led to riots and riots, deaths and murders, persecution of dissidents and a ban on political parties, restrictions on the Russian language and attacks on the previously common common space for Orthodox Christians, ”the publication quotes him as saying.
Nechaev also pointed out that the West was not embarrassed by the growing sympathy in Ukrainian society for Nazi accomplices, while those who did not accept the coup were dubbed “separatists” and even “terrorists.”
He added that the Ukrainian state of Crimea lacked funding, and now it is one of the fastest growing regions in Russia.
Earlier it was reported that Melnik, in an article for the Berliner Zeitung, called Germany's assistance in returning Crimea to her duty for the occupation of the country during the Great Patriotic War. According to him, Germany is responsible for the millions of killed Ukrainians, including during ethnic cleansing on the peninsula.
During the Great Patriotic War and until 1954, the Crimean peninsula was part of the RSFSR. It finally became part of Russia in 2014 after a referendum in which the majority of the inhabitants of the peninsula supported this decision. Ukraine considers this territory annexed and accuses Moscow of human rights violations. The Russian authorities have denied these allegations.
