He noted that the negotiations should be about how the world can get out of this terrible situation.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will try to end the war in Ukraine through direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“I will speak with Putin again on the phone, because we need to talk to each other. It is Putin who must withdraw the troops from Ukraine and stop this terrible senseless war, which has already cost hundreds of thousands of lives,” the German chancellor said, Welt reported.

Scholz said that until the Russian Federation stops its aggression against Ukraine, this situation will not change.

As Scholz noted, phone conversations with Putin previously “were not unloving in tone,” but he repeatedly made it clear that he wanted to “annex the territory of a neighboring country by force,” and the chancellor called it “unacceptable.”

“Sometimes we discussed the issue of prisoner exchange, grain export from Ukraine and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. But it is important that the negotiations return to the actual topic: how the world can get out of this terrible situation. The prerequisite for this is obvious: the withdrawal of Russian troops,” Scholz emphasized . .

Aid to Germany to Ukraine

On January 20, Germany announced the delivery of a new package of military aid to Ukraine worth one billion euros. This is the largest one-time amount of aid that Kyiv previously received from Berlin.

At the same time, Germany very reluctantly agreed to transfer Leopard tanks to Ukraine.