“The last telephone conversation between Scholz and Putin took place in December 2022”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
The call will be the first direct communication between the leaders in almost two years.
The conversation takes place at a critical time for Ukraine, when the country is preparing for its third winter under the threat of attacks from Russia, and a large part of the country’s energy infrastructure is damaged or destroyed.
Uncertainty about support from Western allies is also growing ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House next year.
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.