MOSCOW, may 1 / Radio Sputnik. The Ambassador of Ukraine in Germany Andrey Melnik has not accepted the invitation of the authorities of Berlin to lay wreaths together with the Ambassador of the Russian Federation on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Victory, write “Argumenti.ru”.
it is Expected that on may 2 the Russian Ambassador in Berlin, Sergei Nechaev and the ruling city’s mayor Michael Muller will take part in the solemn ceremony dedicated to the anniversary of the surrender of the Wehrmacht in the German capital.
Members of official delegations will lay wreaths together at the house where the headquarters of the Soviet Eighth guards army. The second of may 1945, it was there that the German General Helmut Weidling signed the order of surrender of the Wehrmacht that carried out the fighting in Berlin.
the Ukrainian Ambassador Andrew Miller, according to the newspaper Tagesspiegel, also was invited to participate in the ceremony, but declined the offer.
His decision, he explained that he considers impossible the laying of wreaths, along with the Russian Ambassador, citing, according to journalists, political motivation in a subsequent study.
In January 2020 radio Sputnik reported as diplomats from the Russian Embassy in Warsaw honored the memory of Soviet soldiers.
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