Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she chose a trip to Italian Florence, and not to Bucha, where Vladimir Zelensky invited her, to " Merkel made this statement in an interview with the ARD channel, Thai PBS World reported..

“This trip was very important for me, for my process of separation from politics,” said the former head of the German government.

Merkel has been criticized for turning down Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's invitation to visit Russian-ravaged Bucha. However, in the same month she went on vacation to Florence, Italy..

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Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk wrote on Twitter about this: “Of course, women and children are not lying on the streets in Florence. But there's so much culture and art here. Wonderful"

Clare, in Florence liegen ja keine ermordeten Frauen und Kinder auf den Stra? en. Dafur gibt es aber so viel Kultur und Kunst. herrlich pic. twitter. com/ps9kmaHSFw.

— Andrij Melnyk (@MelnykAndrij) April 4, 2022.

Recall that in another interview, Angela Merkel said that she did not see her guilt in the fact that Russia attacked Ukraine, and would not apologize.