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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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