Angela Merkel is the former Chancellor of Germany. She said that Poland and the Baltic states are to blame for Russia's attack on Ukraine. The Daily Mail wrote about it.
Merkel said that Poland and the Baltic states severed relations with Russia. This led to war in Ukraine a few months later. Merkel spoke in an interview with a Hungarian newspaper.
Merkel spoke about the Minsk agreements. These agreements were in 2014-2015. They were supposed to bring peace to Eastern Ukraine. But Russia did not follow these agreements.
Merkel said that she only realized in 2021 that Putin did not take the Minsk agreements seriously. She wanted a new meeting with Putin and the European Union. But the Baltic states and Poland were against it.
Merkel said that these countries were afraid. They thought that Europe did not have a common plan regarding Russia. It did not succeed. Then Putin started the war in Ukraine.
Merkel thought about the 2021 meeting. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas was against it. Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron wanted to meet with Putin.
Angela Merkel was the Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She belonged to the German Christian Democratic Party.