Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin stated early on Wednesday that former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former French President Francois Hollande needs to be punished for plotting to begin a battle with Russia.
“Confessions made by the representative of the Kyiv regime and the former leaders of Germany and France should be used as evidence for an international military tribunal. These leaders plotted to start a world war with predictable consequences. And they deserve punishment for their crimes,” Volodin stated in a message on Telegram.
Volodin additionally stated the time has proven Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine turned out to be an accurate choice taken upfront.
“The revelations of Merkel and Hollande that the Minsk agreements were a way to give Kyiv time to militarize, once again confirm how real and serious the threat to the security of not only the inhabitants of Donbas, but also the citizens of our country was,” Volodin additional stated.
He added that the choice taken by Moscow “helped prevent a catastrophe, the death of a huge number of people.”
On Jan. 5, Volodin claimed that Merkel and Hollande sabotaged the Minsk agreements and had been acknowledged by the world group because the perpetrators of the battle in Ukraine, in reference to Merkel’s feedback in a German media interview final December the place she stated offers brokered by Paris and Berlin in 2014 and 2015 had been solely meant to purchase Ukraine time to change into stronger.
