5/5 Ukraine's ambassador to Germany in March boycotted a solidarity concert hosted by Steinmeier, protesting that the soloists featured on the programme were all Russians. "In the middle of a war against civilians! An affront. Sorry I'm staying away," Andrij Melnyk wrote on Twitter.
Rather than eliciting an outpouring of self-reflection, the perceived snub generated a fierce backlash against Ukraine across the political spectrum. Scholz called Kyiv’s decision “irksome”.〜 a snap back to a default position of delayed action to support Ukraine —〜“European interests
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Scholz sends foreign minister as Zelensky invites him to Kyiv
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The Berlin elite's Ukraine dilemma
