Published 1 October 2024 at 15.11
Foreign. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz plans to hold his first conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in nearly two years. This is reported by Die Zeit citing German government sources.
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Although an official request has not yet been made, Die Zeit reports that the conversation between the two leaders being considered ahead of the G20 meeting in Brazil in November.
However, it is not clear exactly what Olaf Scholz plans to discuss with Putin.
The Kremlin has not yet commented on the possibility of a conversation between the two the leaders.
Scholz and Putin last spoke by phone in December 2022. At that time, the German chancellor urged Putin to withdraw his troops from Ukraine and pursue a diplomatic solution to end the war.
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Ukraine is under increasing pressure from the West to open negotiations with Russia. Ukraine's military is struggling to restore its weakened forces, while Russian forces continue their offensive in eastern Ukraine and are closing in on the key logistical hub of Pokrovsk.
Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the United States, where he hoped to permission to use US weapons to strike targets deep inside Russia and secure stronger security guarantees from Ukraine's Western allies. However, Zelenskyy returned without having achieved success on these two central issues.