German navy chief quits after saying Putin deserves respect over Ukraine
by Philip Oltermann in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#5VAN6)
Kay-Achim Schonbach said it was nonsense' that Russia wanted to invade its neighbour and that Kyiv would never win back Crimea
The chief of Germany's navy has resigned after arguing at a livestreamed event that Putin deserves respect" and Kyiv will never ever win back annexed Crimea - comments that Ukraine's ambassador in Berlin said massively" called into question Germany's trustworthiness.
Vice-admiral Kay-Achim Schonbach, who has led Germany's entire naval force and represented it externally since March 2020, made his comments at a talk organised by a thinktank in Delhi on Friday.
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