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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday kept up his criticism of former German chancellor Angela Merkel for the decision to block Ukraine’s entry into NATO in 2008. He said that Merkel and then French president Nicolas Sarkozy had allowed themselves to be influenced by Russia during discussion on the topic at a NATO summit in Bucharest 14 years ago. Zelensky spoke while in Bucha, a suburb of Kiev, where hundreds of civilians had been found murdered after the withdrawal of Russian troops. On Sunday, Zelensky had asked Merkel to visit Bucha to see the disaster with her own eyes. Merkel …