According to participants, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced in the Bundestag Defense Committee that he would try to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I heard, heard clearly, that the chancellor also announced a new initiative for a talk with Putin,” said SPD defense politician Wolfgang Hellmich after the hour-long meeting with Scholz. The chancellor did this according to the motto: “Before May 9th, it made no sense, but we have to make a new attempt because we have to talk to each other.” Without channels of communication, it would not be possible to find a solution to the conflict.
After the war began, Scholz called Putin several times, but then the contact broke off. In a “Stern” interview last week, the chancellor said that he last spoke to the Russian president four weeks ago. According to reports from the Federal Press Office, the telephone call took place on March 30th. “If there is anything to discuss, I will get in touch again,” Scholz said in the interview. “Our priority is clear: the acts of war must end immediately.”
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