German ambassador to India condemns Putin’s Ukraine invasion

Walter J. Lindner, a German ambassador to India condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday for bombarding civilians mercilessly in Ukraine.

Walter J. Lindner, German ambassador to India.

The ambassador said, “It’s almost one month of merciless attack on civilians by the Russian Army and this is not acceptable. Putin is mercilessly bombarding civilians.”

While his visit to International Cricket Stadium in Ranchi, Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA), the Ambassador said that Russia’s war in Ukraine set a bad example for other powerful nations to solve their border disputes.

The German ambassador added, “The danger of the brutal war of Putin to attack his neighbour, an innocent neighbour which didn’t attack him or pose any threat sets a bad example for any future border correction intended by a powerful nation.”

“What do we do if in future other important nations, be they in the security council or outside, decide that they could attack the neighbour? They will say, Putin has done it, we can do it too.”

Speaking about India’s restraint in the UN vote on Russian resolution, the ambassador said, “India and every country in the world have its own surroundings, its own friendships, alignments, neighbourhoods and history, we are in the totally same wavelength as India when we call for the immediate stop to the conflict.”

The German ambassador said, “There is one person who can stop this (ongoing conflict in Ukraine), Putin, and he doesn’t stop it. He continues to let people die, suffer and the world has to know that there’s only one person who is responsible for it.”