German Chancellor Olaf Scholz known as a “mockery” the interview given by Russian President Vladimir Putin to ultraconservative American journalist Tucker Carlson, during which he warned that a defeat for his nation in Ukraine is unattainable.
“The Russian president makes a mockery of what Russia is definitely doing in Ukraine and offers a very absurd rationalization for the causes of this warfare,” Scholz stated on his X account.
For the German chancellor, “this makes it even clearer for us: we stay firmly on the aspect of Ukraine,” he stated, ratifying his help for the nation led by Volodymyr Zelensky.
Amongst different issues, Putin stated within the interview broadcast on Thursday that it was Ukraine that began the warfare in 2014 when President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown and that Russia's purpose is to finish this warfare, which, in keeping with him, has indicators of of a civil warfare. Russians and Ukrainians are one individuals.
He additionally thought-about that Russia has not but achieved its aims in Ukraine, as a result of certainly one of them is “denazification”.