“My departure could have contributed to this, such as the elections in France, the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan or the stupor in the implementation of the Minsk agreement,” RIA Novosti quotes her.
At the end of February, Merkel condemned the Russian military special operation to demilitarize Ukraine.
According to her, "there is no justification for this egregious violation of international law."
In a conversation with UN Secretary General António Guterres in April, Russian President Vladimir Putin recalled that the whole problem around Ukraine arose after the coup d'état that took place in Kyiv in 2014.