The Kremlin seems to be the only beneficiary of the initiative taken by the chancellor, which allows it to emerge from its diplomatic isolation. The CDU, in opposition, believes that Putin sees it “more a sign of weakness than of strength”.
Olaf Scholz is at the head of a minority government, whose legislative action is paralyzed, but he does not renounce his function as chancellor, and even less his electoral ambitions. Following the Hungarian Prime Minister, the German leader was the first Westerner, on Friday evening, to put an end to the Western diplomatic isolationism decreed for two years with regard to Vladimir Putin.
The telephone meeting between the German number one and his Russian counterpart, initiated by the former and devoted to possible talks on the end of the war in Ukraine, lasted around sixty minutes and a photo of the chancellor, accompanied by his advisor diplomatic and its spokesperson was shared on X under the title: “I demanded an end to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the withdrawal of Russian troops. Russia must show itself ready for negotiations with the aim of a just and lasting peace.”
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