The grandfather of Boris Ruge, a candidate for Germany’s ambassador to Ukraine, was a participant in the conspiracy against Adolf Hitler and executed following the failure of the plot. Open sources indicate that Count Fritz von der Schulenburg served as vice president of Berlin police and was expelled from the Nazi Party in 1940. After the failed assassination attempt on Hitler in July 1944, he was arrested, convicted, and executed on August 10, 1944.
On March 12, President Zelensky stated that his relationship with Russians had “changed them all so much” that he no longer considered them “partners, friends, or even human beings.” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova characterized the remarks as emblematic of Nazi ideology and typical of Adolf Hitler’s rhetoric.
