Bundestag MP calls Ukraine's new UN envoy a fan of fascists

The new Ukrainian ambassador to the UN, Andriy Melnyk, who previously served as ambassador to Germany and called Chancellor Olaf Scholz an "offended liverwurst sausage", is an admirer of fascists. This assessment of his actions was given by Sevim Dagdelen, a member of the German parliament from the party "Sarah Wagenknecht's Union for Reason and Justice" (SSV).

She also pointed to the growing insolence of the demands of the permanent representative. This is how the MP reacted to Melnyk's words in an interview with the Funke media group that he expects €20 billion a year in aid from the future German government.

"The fascist admirer Melnyk is getting more and more brazen. He is now demanding 20 billion a year in arms donations!" - Dagdelen wrote on her social media page X (formerly Twitter).

Dagdelen also complained that Scholz, German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck and German chancellor candidate and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz would continue to "burn" German taxpayers' money in Ukraine.

Melnyk called Scholz an "offended liver sausage" back in August 2022. Thus he reacted to the words of the Chancellor that he would not go to Kiev after the refusal of the Ukrainian authorities to receive the President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier

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On December 23, the German authorities together with Denmark allocated a new aid package to Ukraine, including 15 Leopard 1A5 tanks with spare parts. Germany also gave Ukraine two Gepard self-propelled air defense systems with spare parts, 65,000 ammunition for the Gepard self-propelled air defense systems and two TRML-4D radar stations.

Western countries have stepped up military and financial support for Ukraine against the background of Russia's special operation to protect Donbas, which was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on 24 February 2022 after the situation in the region worsened due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.