Shortly before leaving Germany the previous Ukrainian ambassador Andriy Melnyk offers Chancellor Scholz (SPD) an apology for abusive statements. Melnyk told Bild TV that he had asked the Chancellery to speak to Scholz about his imminent departure from Germany. “If the chancellor were to receive me before leaving, I would apologize to him.”
He would apologize for being Chancellor “insulted liverwurst” said Melnyk. The diplomat made this statement when Scholz initially refused to travel to Kyiv himself after Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier had been uninvited from Ukraine.
Melnyk assessed the prospects of a face-to-face meeting with the chancellor as uncertain: “Let’s see, I hope so.” But it is “good manners when someone leaves that he is also received”.