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politico.eu
Jun 8, 2022
Former German Chancellor claims Ukraine might have faced a full-blown war with Russia sooner had she not intervened with controversial decisions.
In her first public interview since leaving office in December, Merkel argued that Russian President Vladimir Putin would have fully invaded his neighboring country much earlier if she and other allies had not taken controversial decisions such as blocking Ukraine’s membership bid for the NATO military alliance in 2008, or negotiating the Minsk peace accords in 2014 and 2015, which Ukraine viewed as disadvantageous for its own security.
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