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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kate Connolly in Berlin

Zelenskiy invokes fall of Berlin Wall in appeal to German parliament

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has invoked the fall of the Berlin Wall in an attempt to persuade German MPs to do everything possible to halt Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Speaking to the German parliament via video, the Ukrainian president upbraided Germany – Europe’s largest economy – for having persisted in the past in its insistence that the gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2 and other business projects with Russia, were “purely economic” and not political.

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