BERLIN — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urges Germany in an emotional video address before parliament to help destroy a new “wall” Russia was erecting in Europe.
“It’s not a Berlin Wall — it is a Wall in central Europe between freedom and bondage and this Wall is growing bigger with every bomb” dropped on Ukraine, Zelensky tells MPs.
“Dear Mr. Scholz, tear down this Wall,” he implores German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, evoking US President Ronald Reagan’s Cold War appeal in Berlin.
Zelensky accuses Germany of putting its economy before his country’s security in the run-up to the Russian invasion, criticizing the German government’s support for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project meant to bring natural gas from Russia. Ukraine and others had opposed the project, warning that it endangered Ukrainian and European security.
Zelensky also notes Germany’s hesitancy when it came to imposing some of the toughest sanctions on Russia for fear it could hurt the German economy.
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