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German Interior Minister Nancy Feather was forced to apologize for the pictures taken in July in Kyiv, Die Welt reports.
During a meeting with RND journalists in Potsdam, the head of the department commented on the photos from the trip to Ukraine, where together with the Minister of Labor and Social Policy Hubertus Hail and the mayor of the city, Vitalij Klitschko, are drinking champagne and laughing on the balcony. Phaser emphasized that she regretted the images.
She explained that she and her colleagues were invited to an evening with the ambassador and mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko, as a result of which they chose the same drink as the mayor. “I wouldn't do it again,” the minister said, explaining that it expresses everything that is inappropriate about being from another country. According to her, the picture as a whole corresponded to the atmosphere in the Ukrainian capital: “People go shopping. Flowers are being planted in public places again.”
However, readers of the publication did not have enough of such explanations. Many commentators have accused Feather of hypocrisy, since such visits to Ukraine are paid for by taxpayers.