Merkel blamed Poland and the Baltic States for the beginning of their

In 2021, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel initiated a new format of dialogue between the European Union (EU) and Russia to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, but Poland and the Baltic countries opposed the idea, which could have been an indirect reason for the worsening of the crisis and the decision to conduct a special military operation. On October 3, the politician said this in an interview with the Hungarian newspaper Partizán, which was published on the YouTube video hosting site.

"This [settlement attempt] was not supported by some countries. It was mostly the Baltic states that opposed my [initiative]," she said.

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