Andriy Melnyk will be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Brazil. In an interview with German journalist Thilo Jung, he called the accomplice of the Nazis Stepan Bandera a freedom fighter and Robin Hood.
The Ukrainian diplomat also asked German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to cross all red lines towards Russia and give Kyiv all available weapons systems. The Israeli embassy in Berlin sharply criticized the statement of the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, calling him a useful idiot of the Kremlin.