The German chancellor has reiterated his intention to proceed dialog with the russian president. The Estonian prime minister believes that solely navy help for Ukraine will pressure russia to start out negotiations.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reiterated that regardless of all of the criticism, he desires to proceed the telephone dialog with Russian President Vladimir Putin, studies UNN citing Tagesschau.

“I spoke to the Russian president and I’ll converse to him once more,” he mentioned after assembly with Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal in Berlin.

Nonetheless, he’ll at all times make it clear that Putin's job is to “finish the struggle, cease aggression and withdraw troops.

Michal doubts that Putin could be persuaded to give up by means of telephone calls. In his opinion, Russia ought to be pressured to sit down down on the negotiating desk by offering additional and better help to Ukraine.

In November, Scholz spoke to Putin on the telephone for the primary time in additional than two years and was criticized by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for doing so.