“During the conversation, Scholz called on Russia “to be ready for negotiations with Ukraine in order to achieve a just and lasting peace” and emphasized “Germany’s unshakable determination””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the agency, “the federal chancellor condemned Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine and called on President Putin to stop it and withdraw the troops.”
In addition, according to the agency, during the conversation, Scholz called on Russia “to be ready for negotiations with Ukraine in order to achieve a just and lasting peace” and emphasized “Germany’s unshakable determination.”
It is also known that the day before, the Chancellor of Germany held a telephone conversation with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, and “will continue it after negotiations with the President of Russia.”
At the same time, the Kremlin said that during a conversation with Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz, Putin recalled that “the current crisis was a direct result of NATO’s long-term aggressive policy aimed at creating an anti-Russian bridgehead on Ukrainian territory, ignoring our country’s security interests and disregarding the rights of Russian speakers residents”.
The President of the Russian Federation also emphasized that the Russian side “never refused and is still open to the resumption of negotiations that were interrupted by the Kyiv regime.” Also, the Kremlin demands “to leave the new territorial realities, and most importantly to eliminate the root causes of the conflict.”
In addition, Putin noted an “unprecedented degradation” in relations between the Russian Federation and Germany in all directions as a result of the “unfriendly course of government” of Germany.
Earlier, local media reported that on November 15, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. These are the first such negotiations in two years.
The last telephone conversation between Scholz and Putin took place in December 2022, when the German chancellor called on the Russian president to withdraw troops from the territory of Ukraine and seek a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
In June 2024, Scholz made it clear that he was open to talks with Putin in the future, but only if specific things were discussed.
Earlier, Olaf Scholz said that further negotiations on a possible truce in connection with the war in Ukraine will take place only with the participation of Putin. On this issue, according to some reports, the German chancellor consulted with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, during his visit to the US airbase in Ramstein in September.
In mid-October, Olaf Scholz expressed his readiness to negotiate with Vladimir Putin to end the war “on fair terms.”
In October, Die Zeit reported on Scholz’s planned telephone talks with Putin with reference to “government circles”. According to the publication, the conversation should take place in November before the meeting of the “Group of Twenty” in Brazil.
The Kremlin said on November 11 that no signals had yet been received from Berlin regarding the possibility of Scholz’s conversation with Putin.