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Ukraine's ambassador to Berlin called Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz a 'sulky liver sausage' for hinting he won't visit Ukraine like other European leaders.
Mr Scholz suggested that he would not visit Kyiv after the German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier's offer to visit was rejected, he has also been accused by President Volodymyr Zelensky of having close ties to the Kremlin.
The relationship between Ukraine and Germany has been strained during Russia's invasion, as Mr Scholz has been criticised by Kyiv for weak sanctions against Putin and for a lack of military support.
'You can't do that,' Mr Scholz told ZDF, a German public broadcaster, on Monday.
'It can't work that when a country has provided so much military aid, so much financial aid — which is needed — when it's a question of the security guarantees that will be important to Ukraine in the future — you then say: But the president can't come.'
However Ukraine's envoy to Berlin, Andriy Melnyk, said: 'Acting like a sulky
