MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The relations of Russia and Germany should be fixed at a governmental level, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, told RIA Novosti Saturday.
“I think, in regard to relations between the states in general, it is necessary to often recall what [first German Chancellor Otto von] Bismarck said: ‘together, only together should we go forward and continue to work’,” Gorbachev said.
Gorbachev added the relations between the two countries were important as they were able to bring a lot of good to the global international relations.
Moscow and Berlin have seen a deterioration of relations over Ukraine’s internal conflict which escalated in 2014.
Since 2014, the European Union has introduced several rounds of anti-Russia sanctions, accusing Moscow of interfering in the Ukrainian crisis — a claim Moscow has repeatedly denied.
