Germany’s president apologized for the death and destruction caused by German troops in Ukraine during World War II. Roman Herzog, who is on a four-day visit to the capital of Kiev, said on Ukrainian Television that he suffers “together with the victims and their families, and I am ashamed of what was done.”
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