German Opposition Leader Meets Zelenskiy as Scholz Refuses Visit
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz in Irpin, Ukraine, on May 3.
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German opposition leader Friedrich Merz had an hour-long meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Tuesday, amid a background of growing tension between the governments in Berlin and Kyiv.
The talk went “exceptionally well”, Merz’s spokesman later wrote on Twitter.