The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he is ready to talk again with Russian President Vladimir Putin, although his recent phone conversation did not yield results, DPA reported, quoted by BTA.
"It was disappointing,”, Scholz said last night on one of the TV year-end review programs, "because he just repeated all his formulas again".
Despite criticism from Ukraine and Eastern European countries over the talk, Scholz said it was necessary to make Putin understand that he could not count on Germany to reduce its support for Ukraine.
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Scholz said he called on Putin to "withdraw the troops so that a basis for peaceful development can emerge.
Of the conversation, the chancellor said: "And it has to be done, and I will do it again. But we must not have any illusions about this matter.
Scholz, on his own initiative, called Putin in mid-November, for the first time since December 2022. this way.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Scholz of opening "Pandora's box" with the call.