Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel confirmed that she “sees no point in her mediation in the Ukrainian crisis, and that Kyiv did not ask her to intervene, but tried to involve Russian President Vladimir Putin in the dialogue in 2021.” with the European Union”. But among the European countries there was no unity on this issue.”

She explained: “In June 2021, a meeting between Putin and US President Joe Biden took place, and after that, French President Emmanuel Macron and I thought that the European side should try to involve Putin in a dialogue, because I already understood that with the Minsk agreements, everything it went well, but after that there was no unity of opinion on the part of the European Union.”

“I then thought that it no longer makes sense for her to try to overcome the resistance of her EU partners, and I decided that I would soon leave the post of chancellor, and, in any case, a few years ago I might have been able to put pressure on Putin,” she added.

It should be noted that Merkel on February 25, for the first time since leaving office, issued a public statement in which she condemned the Russian special military operation in Ukraine and stated that “what is happening represents a major turning point in the history of Europe after the Cold War … There is no justification for this blatant violation of international law … I strongly condemn him.”