Zelensky dismisses German ambassador Melnyk – Muricas News

The controversial Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk, has been dismissed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This emerged from a decree printed by the President’s Workplace in Kyiv on Saturday. The diplomat was lately criticized for statements in regards to the Ukrainian nationalist and anti-Semite Stepan Bandera. Melnyk was accused of enjoying down the Holocaust.

Earlier than that, he had repeatedly sharply criticized German politics. He was additionally given joint accountability for the scandal surrounding the uninviting of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier by Kyiv originally of April. He then accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz of being an “offended liverwurst” as a result of he didn’t wish to go to Ukraine himself. Melnyk needed to apologize for this assertion afterwards.

Additional ambassadors recalled

Melnyk stated of Bandera that he was “not a mass assassin of Jews and Poles.” There was sharp criticism for this from Poland and Israel, and the Ukrainian International Ministry additionally distanced itself from the diplomat’s assertion. Bandera-led Ukrainian partisans have been answerable for ethnically motivated expulsions in 1943, killing tens of hundreds of Polish and Jewish civilians. Bandera fled to Germany after World Conflict II and was murdered there in 1959 by an agent of the Soviet secret service KGB.

Because the Ukrinform information company reviews, different ambassadors have been recalled along with Melnyk. These are Lyubov Nepop (Hungary), Vyacheslav Jatsjuk (Norway), Yevhen Perebjinis (Czech Republic) and Igor Policha (India).