The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, stated this Thursday during a videoconference speech in the German Bundestag that Russia is building “a wall” in Europe with the attack that began on February 24 against the country and has demanded more support from Berlin.
“You are trapped behind a wall”, Zelensky said, drawing a parallel with the Berlin Wall and the Cold War, although he stressed that this wall “is much stronger” and prevents other Europeans from seeing the suffering in Ukraine, according to the German news agency DPA.
Thus, he has demanded that Germany support kyiv’s request to join the European Union (EU) and has charged Berlin for delaying the cancellation of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which directly connects Russia and Ukraine. In this sense, he has criticized that all Ukrainian requests to abandon the project before the invasion received a single answer: “Economy, economy, economy.”
The Russian military offensive began on February 24 after the order given by the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, who days before had recognized the independence of the self-proclaimed people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, located in the east of the country and the scene of a conflict since 2014.