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Rosneft board chairman and Nord Stream 2 (owned by Russian Gazprom) board chairman Gerhard Schroeder said that “the annexation of Crimea was a clear violation of international law“.
According to Deutsche Welle, former German Chancellor Schroeder publicly criticized the Kremlin for the first time in an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel, published on January 16.
During the conversation, the journalist reminded Schroeder of the phrase in his book “The Last Chance” that the head of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, “crossed the line that should not have been crossed.” Schroeder clarified that this phrase did not refer to the Russian president, but to the country as a whole.
“We know that Putin is an important force in Russia, but we do not know if he is really responsible for everything related to Russia,” he stressed.
Schroeder recalled the Ukrainian occupation of Crimea and said it is not known what the reasons were behind these actions by Moscow.
“Suppose Ukraine actually joined NATO, as the Americans wanted. Then Sevastopol, one of Russia’s most important military ports, would be on the territory of the Western alliance,” Schroeder continued with his thinking.
According to him, “no president of Russia will not return Crimea“.
Another example of the fact that the Russian Federation “crossed illegal borders”, Schroeder called hacker attacks on Western governments, including Germany.
Recall, earlier Schroeder started his own podcast and in the first episode he insulted the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnik. He called it “dwarf.”
The Ukrainian diplomat responded to Schroeder by recalling the Third Reich. Melnyk noted that Ukrainians “did not and will not forget that it was in Nazi Germany that Ukrainians were branded as Untermenschen, subhumans who were subjected to ruthless extermination and slavery.”
As previously reported by OBOZREVATEL:
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The European Court of Human Rights declared partially admissible Ukraine’s complaint against the Russian Federation regarding the violation of human rights in occupied Crimea.
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At the same time, the court ruled that in this case it was not obliged to decide whether the “admission” of the peninsula to the Russian Federation was legal from the point of view of international law in accordance with Russian law.
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Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that the ECHR’s decision is a victory for our country.
