Ukrainian ambassador to Germany condemned Chancellor Olaf Scholz over his remark that he would not visit the war-torn country, because Kyiv refused to invite German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier due of his alleged close ties with Russia.

“Playing an insulted liver sausage doesn’t sound very statesmanlike”, - Ukrainian ambassador, Andriy Melnyk, told the DPA news agency, as per German website Merkur.de.

Criticising the German Chancellor further, Melnyk outlined “this is about the most brutal war of extermination since the Nazi invasion of Ukraine, it’s not kindergarten”.

Melnyk, who became Kyiv’s ambassador to Germany in 2015, has been one of the German government’s most outspoken critics since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.