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German

Navy chief Kay-Achim Schönbach has

resigned from his post after controversial remarks about the crisis in

Ukraine, a

Defense Ministry

spokesman said on Saturday .

The vice-admiral, who had called

the idea that

Russia intended to invade Ukraine

"nonsense

," will step down "with immediate effect," the spokesman told AFP.

Schönbach also said that Russian President

Vladimir Putin

deserved respect, according to a video recorded during a think tank meeting in

New Delhi

on Friday and circulating online.

"It's easy to give [Putin] the respect he wants, and probably also deserves," he said.

The vice admiral also argued that the Crimean

peninsula ,

annexed by Russia in 2014,

"has gone and will not return"

under Ukraine's sovereignty.

The senior officer made a mea culpa in the afternoon, describing his statements as "reckless."

"No need to object: it was clearly a mistake," he wrote in a tweet.

However, in a statement issued late at night, he explained that he had tendered his resignation to "avoid further damage to the German Navy and, above all, to the

Federal Republic of Germany."

The

Ukrainian

Foreign Ministry

summoned the German ambassador,

Anka Feldhusen,

in the afternoon

,

after calling the comments "absolutely unacceptable."

The Vice Admiral's remarks come amid the Russian-Western crisis over Ukraine.

Both sides are making intense diplomatic efforts to prevent the situation from escalating, while tens of thousands of Russian soldiers remain concentrated on the Ukrainian border.

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