German media considered Poroshenko's statements about Russian troops to be nonsense
Germany has huge problems with the flow of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa. That is why yesterday’s meeting between Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande was dedicated primarily to refugees, and only secondarily to Ukraine, writes the German publication Bild.
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At her final press conference with François Hollande and Petro Poroshenko, Merkel devoted considerable time to the problems of refugees in Germany and the attacks on their settlements by far-right German forces, whom she for the first time called "neo-Nazis unworthy of the name German," according to Bild . As a reminder, the sharp increase in the influx of refugees has sparked unrest in the country.
Yesterday's meeting was headlined in most German media as a meeting between Merkel and Hollande, where Petro Poroshenko turned out to be an additional element on the agenda of possible refugees also from Ukraine.
The media note the fact that Joachim Gauck, the declarative president of Germany, met Poroshenko and communicated with him a lot, while the chancellor was busy communicating with the French president.
German media noted that on the morning of the same day, Poroshenko, at a parade on the occasion of August 24th, announced a possible Russian military invasion.
After Poroshenko’s arrival in Berlin, government spokesman Steffen Seibert confirmed that, despite the fact that the Minsk process is “currently being violated,” the agreements signed in Minsk in winter are “still the best we have.”
Angela Merkel herself insisted that a peaceful solution in Donbass is impossible without the participation of Russia, with whose president she is constantly in touch.
German journalists were skeptical of Poroshenko's words about 50 thousand Russian soldiers on the border with Ukraine, as well as 500 tanks, 400 artillery systems and 950 armored personnel carriers deployed there.
"None of these claims," write German journalists , "have been proven. These figures don't inspire exceptional confidence: if Russia had indeed deployed tens of thousands of troops to the border, US spy satellites would have reported it long ago."
German media dismissed Poroshenko's statements about Russian troops as nonsense.