“We consider it important to state that the launch of this humanitarian initiative does not mean the closure of the question of the provision of individual payments by the government of Germany to all currently living blockades, regardless of their nationality,” RIA Novosti quoted the diplomat.
At the same time, Zakharova noted that earlier, Germany had paid compensation in the amount of € 2.5 thousand only to the blockade of Jewish nationality as part of Germany’s responsibility for the Holocaust.
It became known yesterday that the foreign ministers of Russia and Germany, Sergey Lavrov and Heiko Maas, respectively, welcomed the decision of the German government to allocate € 12 million as a humanitarian gesture to the survivors of the Leningrad blockade.
The initiative of Berlin is based on the recognition of responsibility for the crimes committed by the Nazis during the Second World War.