Putin willing to speak with Scholz, RIA reports.
Despite not having a planned phone call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to contacts with him, a Kremlin spokesman said on Sunday, according to the official RIA Novosti news agency.
Germany announced last week that it would send 14 of its Leopard 2 tanks to Kyiv and approve the shipments of other allied European nations’ Leopard tanks.
‘As of right now, there are no scheduled agreed-upon meetings (with Scholz)’. Putin has been and is still open to contacts, according to Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, who was quoted by RIA Novosti.
In an interview that was published on Sunday, Scholz was quoted as saying, ‘I will also speak to Putin again – because it is necessary to speak.’
Putin must withdraw his forces from Ukraine in order to put an end to this horrifying, senseless conflict, which has already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, he continued.
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