“I now find this “ambassador” unbearable”: SPD member of parliament Bartol accuses Ukraine’s ambassador Melnyk of disrespect. Three apology tweets follow.
The SPD member of the Bundestag Sören Bartol described the Ukrainian ambassador in Germany, Andriy Melnyk, as “unbearable” via Twitter – but deleted the tweet a short time later.
“The quotation marks in particular were disrespectful to him, for which I sincerely apologize,” wrote the State Secretary in the Ministry of Construction in another tweet. In the deleted tweet Bartol had written: “I now find this “ambassador” unbearable.”
In an interview with the German Press Agency, Melnyk had previously asked Chancellor Olaf Scholz to make a government statement following the video address planned for Thursday by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the members of the Bundestag. He should say how Germany wants to continue to support Ukraine.
“Exactly three weeks after the start of the war, it would be high time for the German head of government to comment on this again and announce very specific aid measures,” said Melnyk.
Hashtag #disrespect
In his tweet, which was later deleted, Bartol criticized that this is not how you behave towards a friendly country. And above all not towards a chancellor, a federal government that is currently helping Ukraine together with the German Bundestag. At the end, Bartol wrote the hashtag “#disrespect”.
Three apology tweets followed later. In it, Bartol wrote that his intention was to point out that the federal government was doing a great deal to help Ukraine and that it would make sense to act quietly without publicly assigning blame. “But I myself missed that restraint with my tweet.”
These are bad times, and the situation, which is unbearable for the Ukrainian side, understandably leads to requests to the federal government where diplomatic restraint towards democratic governments would be appropriate in times of peace.
The federal government supports Ukraine both with arms deliveries and financially. Germany has also taken in tens of thousands of refugees from Ukraine. Scholz had already made a government statement in the Bundestag on February 27, on day four of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Zelenskyj is to be connected via video to the plenary hall of the Bundestag this Thursday at 9:00 a.m. before the regular session begins.
Source: Stern
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