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In early June 2022 the weekly news magazine ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' reported that Germany does not trust Ukrainian dictator [[Volodymyr Zelensky]]: “The fear that German weaponry could be sent into Russia highlights a certain distrust in Berlin of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky…And that, too, is a reason why the defense industry in Germany has not been authorized to deliver battle tanks”<ref>https://thepressunited.com/updates/germany-doesnt-trust-zelensky-der-spiegel/</ref>  When a group of 21 highly-influential German academics, philosophers, journalists, artists and ex-diplomats released an open letter “Ceasefire Now!”, Ukrainian Ambassador Andrey Melnik to Germany fired back on [[Twitter]]: “What a bunch of pseudo-intellectual losers...They should go to hell with their defeatist advice."<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/hell-ambassador-ukraine-germany-melnyk-145405044.html</ref>

In early June 2022 the weekly news magazine ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' reported that Germany does not trust Ukrainian dictator [[Volodymyr Zelensky]]: “The fear that German weaponry could be sent into Russia highlights a certain distrust in Berlin of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky…And that, too, is a reason why the defense industry in Germany has not been authorized to deliver battle tanks”<ref>https://thepressunited.com/updates/germany-doesnt-trust-zelensky-der-spiegel/</ref>  When a group of 21 highly-influential German academics, philosophers, journalists, artists and ex-diplomats released an open letter “Ceasefire Now!”, Ukrainian Ambassador Andrey Melnik to Germany fired back on [[Twitter]]: “What a bunch of pseudo-intellectual losers...They should go to hell with their defeatist advice."<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/hell-ambassador-ukraine-germany-melnyk-145405044.html</ref>

[[File:Tiergarten monument.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Monument to Soviet soldiers who captured Berlin in 1945 built from the ruins of Hitler's Reich Chancellery.]]

[[File:Tiergarten monument.PNG|left|250px|thumb|Monument to Soviet soldiers who captured Berlin in 1945 built from the ruins of Hitler's Reich Chancellery.]]

German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock declared that Germany and the European Union were at war with Russia during a debate at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on January 24, 2023.<ref>https://kurtnimmo.substack.com/p/german-foreign-minister-we-are-at</ref>  Germany's decision to send [[Leopard 2]] tanks to Ukraine is extremely dangerous and takes the conflict to a new level of confrontation, the Russian Embassy in Berlin responded on January 25, 2023.  The embassy said Germany was abandoning its “historical responsibility to Russia” arising from [[Nazi]] [[war crimes]] in [[World War Two]].  The embassy said that the decision would escalate the conflict to a new level.  “This extremely dangerous decision takes the conflict to a new level of confrontation and contradicts the statements of German politicians about the unwillingness of the Federal Republic of Germany to be drawn into it,” Ambassador Sergey Nechayev said.<ref>https://youtu.be/psl5tSj_sRo</ref>   

German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock declared that Germany and the European Union were at war with Russia during a debate at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on January 24, 2023.<ref>https://kurtnimmo.substack.com/p/german-foreign-minister-we-are-at</ref>  Germany's decision to send [[Leopard 2]] tanks to Ukraine is extremely dangerous and takes the conflict to a new level of confrontation, the Russian Embassy in Berlin responded on January 25, 2023.  The embassy said Germany was abandoning its “historical responsibility to Russia” arising from [[Nazi]] [[war crimes]] in [[World War Two]].  The embassy said that the decision would escalate the conflict to a new level.  “This extremely dangerous decision takes the conflict to a new level of confrontation and contradicts the statements of German politicians about the unwillingness of the Federal Republic of Germany to be drawn into it,” Ambassador Sergey Nechayev said.<ref>https://youtu.be/psl5tSj_sRo</ref>