Despite an unsuccessful phone conversation with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is ready for further talks with him, the German edition RND reports, according to UNN.
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"It was frustrating," said the Chancellor in the RTL channel's annual review, "because he just repeated all his formulas again."
Nevertheless, the phone call was necessary to make it clear to Putin that he could not hope that Germany's support for Ukraine would weaken and to ask him "that he also has to withdraw his troops so that the basis for peaceful development can be created," Scholz explained. "And it needs to be done, and I will do it again. But we should not have any illusions about this," he said.
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Scholz called Putin on his own initiative in mid-November, the first time since December 2022. This drew criticism from Russia's EU neighbors.