Ezgi Guyildar requested Andrey Melnik why his son is learning in Berlin as an alternative of combating for his nation
Ukraine’s outgoing ambassador to Berlin, Andrey Melnik, has referred to as a left-wing German politician “inhuman,” “pro-Putin,” and “heartless” this weekend.
Ezgi Guyildar, a member of Die Linke (The Left), had questioned why Melnik’s son is learning in Berlin fairly than combating for his nation.
Guyildar has bitterly opposed her nation’s arming of Ukraine and sanctioning of Russia, each of which Melnik has aggressively championed.
“Why is Melink’s son truly learning in Berlin and never combating for his nation in Ukraine and our freedom?” she requested on Twitter on Saturday. Her reference to “our freedom” was seemingly laced with a heavy dose of sarcasm.
Melnik replied with a tirade of abuse. Tagging Guyildar’s occasion, the ambassador requested “how low can this pro-Putin, Stalinist, inhuman, heartless, horrible occasion morally sink?”
“Good luck in tomorrow’s state elections in Decrease Saxony, you unscrupulous,” he continued, signing off: “thoughts your self, left-dirt.”
When the election outcomes got here in on Sunday, Melnik gloated as Die Linke obtained half as many votes as in 2017. “Good luck in insignificance,” the Ukrainian diplomat jeered at occasion chief Janine Wissler.
Melnik didn’t deal with why his son shouldn’t be combating in Ukraine, regardless of the diplomat’s repeated insistence that Germans bankroll Kiev’s army. Nevertheless, it’s seemingly that the coed has been deemed eligible to keep away from service. Whereas Kiev declared martial legislation and banned males aged between 18 and 60 from leaving the nation from late February, exemptions are granted to “graduate college students and doctoral college students learning overseas in full-time or twin types of training.”
Melnik has repeatedly insulted his German hosts in latest months, and has ridiculed anybody suggesting a diplomatic answer to the battle in Ukraine. When former Chancellor Angela Merkel declared final month that any future European safety association should “additionally embrace Russia,” Melnik accused her of holding a “borderline obsession” with Russia.
The outgoing ambassador’s feedback on Merkel had been the newest in a protracted line of scandals and controversies, together with commemorating Nazi-collaborating struggle criminals, telling German lecturers to “go to hell,” and offending Israel and Poland with Holocaust revisionism.
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