Germany’s incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz has drawn sharp criticism from Moscow by suggesting that destroying the Russian bridge to the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea could help Kiev’s war effort.
“Think twice, Nazi!” wrote former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on X on Monday.
In an interview with Germany’s ARD public broadcaster on Sunday, Merz said the Ukrainian military needs to come out of the defensive and suggested that destroying the bridge – the most important link from Russia to Crimea – could help.
Merz also reiterated his long-standing openness to sending long-range Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.
“Fritz Merz is haunted by the memory of his father, who served in Hitler’s Wehrmacht,” Medvedev wrote, using a pejorative Russian term for Germans.
Medevedev, who now serves as the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, accused the conservative politician of seeking to escalate the war in Ukraine.
Kiev has repeatedly stated that it wants to bomb the bridge, a move that Moscow has warned against.
Merz is set to be appointed as German chancellor in early May after his centre-right bloc won parliamentary elections in February.
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