Links to Russia: Scholz doesn't go to Kiev, he's welcome there.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Ukraine's decision last month not to welcome German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier prevents him from travelling to Kiev.

The fact that the president of the Federal Republic of Germany was not welcomed prevents me from doing this”, he said when he spoke of a possible trip to the Ukrainian capital.

While on a trip to Warsaw in mid-April, Steinmeier was told he would not be welcome in Ukraine, as the Volodymyr Zelensky government accused him of having had close ties with the Kremlin for a long time.

This is not an acceptable way to address the president of “a country that offers so much military and financial assistance needed when it comes to security guarantees that are important for Ukraine in the future”, Scholz argued in an interview with the German public broadcaster “ZDF”

However, the “assistance we have offered has contributed to the fact that the Ukrainian Army can stay this long against such a fierce opponent and continue to support them”, the German Chancellor has declared when asked why Germany is late to send weapons to Ukraine.

Scholz avoided the question of why in a few days he had passed the threat of nuclear war “to send heavy arms to Ukraine, arguing that many people were obsessed with the term “ardmatizing heavily”, when Germany actually sent very dangerous “> from the beginning of the Russian occupation.

The German Chancellor has not ruled out the possibility of meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, if he is invited to the G20 summit in Indonesia later this year, writes Politico, broadcast Klankosova.tv.