The Ukrainian ambassador Andriy Melnyk is to leave Germany. That reports the Bild newspaper citing the Ukrainian government.
The newspaper quotes a government official: “This proposal was made by the Ministry to the President of Ukraine. Andriy Melnyk is very much appreciated in Kyiv for his work.” The change in Berlin could take place before the fall, they said. Melnyk has been massive lately criticized for defending Ukrainian nationalist leader Bandera.
Melnyk: “Bandera was not a mass murderer of Jews and Poles”
Nationalist partisans from western Ukraine were responsible for ethnically motivated expulsions in 1943, in which tens of thousands of Polish civilians were murdered. One of their leaders at that time was Stepan Bandera.
Melnyk had denied that there was any evidence of the mass murder of Jews by the troops of Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera. “Bandera was not a mass murderer of Jews and Poles,” Melnyk said in an interview with journalist and YouTuber Tilo Jung. He would always confirm that, says Melnyk.
Melnyk could switch to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, writes the picture. The 46-year-old has been ambassador in Berlin for eight years. When asked by the Berliner Zeitung, the Ukrainian Embassy declined to comment on the report.