“No one will stop Putin with phone calls”

“No telephone call is able to stop Russian aggression in Ukraine,” the Polish Prime Minister declared on Sunday, two days after a controversial call from the German Chancellor to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“No one will stop Putin with phone calls,” wrote Donald Tusk on the social network telephone cannot replace real support from the entire West for Ukraine,” he stressed.

The Ukrainian energy network, already very fragile, faced one of the most significant Russian attacks in recent months on Sunday, with strikes killing nine people and injuring around twenty people across the country, according to the authorities.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz, criticized for his telephone interview with Vladimir Putin, defended himself by reaffirming, on Sunday, Germany’s unfailing support for Ukraine and assuring that no decision on the outcome of the war would be made. taken without kyiv.

These remarks by the German chancellor were welcomed on Friday by Donald Tusk, “happy to hear that the chancellor (…) had reiterated the Polish position: nothing on Ukraine without Ukraine.” The meeting between Chancellor Scholz and President Putin angered Kiev, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accusing Olaf Scholz of having opened “Pandora’s box”.