Merkel, chancellor for 16 years until December, said she would not offer advice from the sidelines but she supported the government’s efforts to “find an end to this barbaric war”, a participant at the event told Reuters.
A fluent Russian-speaker after growing up in the former communist East Germany, Merkel drew criticism from the United States and others for supporting the planned Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, designed to deliver Russian gas directly to Germany. Although Merkel, a conservative, gave a brief statement shortly after Russia’s invasion in February, saying there was no justification for the blatant breach of international law, her silence since then has raised eyebrows.
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