The German ex-chancellor says she could not block Russia's designs on Ukraine in 2021.
President Putin spoke German with Mrs Merkel, having been a Soviet KGB officer in former East Germany
She said she had tried to convene European talks with the Russian president and French President Emmanuel Macron in the summer of 2021."Really everyone knew: in autumn she'll be gone," she said. In light of President Putin's invasion - preceded by weeks of massive military build-up on Ukraine's borders - many have argued that Mrs Merkel and other EU leaders should have adopted a tougher approach to the Kremlin.
A ceasefire deal was reached in Minsk after Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and during its proxy war in the Donbas region. But key points, including disarmament and international supervision, were not implemented.
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