Russia-Ukraine Conflict | ‘Tear Down This Wall’: Ukrainian President Zelensky Urges Germany In Emotional Plea
Zelensky tended to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz directly with a call for greater solidarity with Ukraine.
New Delhi: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday has requested Germany in an emotional video address before parliament to help destroy a new "Wall" Russia was erecting in Europe as quoted by news agency AFP.
"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 told MPs.
#UPDATE Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky called on Germany on Thursday to help destroy a new "Wall" Russia was erecting in Europe, speaking in an emotional video address to the country's Bundestag lower house of parliament https://t.co/oQgWQKCMsq pic.twitter.com/Q6tnxk3fhz
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 17, 2022
Zelensky was welcomed by MPs in the Bundestag lower house with overwhelming applause.
In a speech saturated with authentic symbolism from Germany's victory over its Cold War division, Zelensky tended to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz directly with a call for greater solidarity with Ukraine.
"Dear Mr Scholz, tear down this Wall," he implored, evoking US President Ronald Reagan's 1987 appeal in Berlin.
"Give Germany the leadership role that you in Germany deserve."
Anyway he coupled his honeyed words with a solid reproach of Berlin's years-long hesitance to confront Moscow and cut off its solid energy and business ties with Russia.
"We turned to you," he said. "We told you that Nord Stream (gas pipelines) was a kind of preparation for the war."
"And the answer we got was purely economic -- it is economy, economy, economy but that was the mortar for the new Wall."
The Russian intrusion of Ukraine on February 24 provoked an upgrade of key planks of Germany's energy, financial and security strategy - - some of them tracing all the way back to the furthest limit of World War II.
It has placed the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project aside briefly, joined partners in impressive rebuffing sanctions on Ukraine and vowed a gigantic expansion in protection spending while at the same time dropping a prohibition on arms commodities to struggle zones to help Ukraine.
Germany has likewise said it plans to be almost liberated from Russian oil imports before the current year's over in spite of the fact that it actually remains vigorously reliant upon Russian gas.
However, Berlin has opposed an out and out end to Russian energy imports, cautioning it would cause winter shortages and drive inflation, creating potential instability in Europe's top economy.
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