The former German chancellor has said she wanted the EU to negotiate directly with Moscow on Ukraine in 2021
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she proposed that EU members adopt “a new format” of talking to Russia before the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, but Poland and the Baltic states turned it down.
Merkel, who retired as chancellor in 2021 after 16 years in power, was among the brokers of the 2014 and 2015 Minsk agreements aimed at stopping the fighting between the Ukrainian government and the Donbass republics in east of the country, which declared independence from Ukraine after a violent Western-backed coup…
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