"The only way to find out what Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks about the negotiations it is for Ukraine to ask him about it," German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung in an interview titled: "I am at peace with myself".
„We will have to find out about his intentions, including by talking to him about it,” he said.
Thus, the German leader commented on a journalistic question about why Putin should participate in the negotiations when Russia is improving its positions. He added that it is useless to speculate on this matter.
On Friday, at the initiative of the German side, the first telephone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Scholz since December 2022 took place.