German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said that Russia needs to attend a second “peace summit” to resolve the Ukrainian crisis.
“There have already been many discussions about this, most recently in Switzerland. And I am very happy that the Ukrainian president also wants Russia to be present at the next meeting,” Olaf Scholz said at a campaign event of the German Social Democratic Party in Dresden.
The German chancellor called for supporting peace talks, but “not by surrendering Ukraine”. In his opinion, NATO’s position is that the Ukrainian conflict should not escalate into an open confrontation between the military-political bloc and Russia.
At the same time, the politician said that he “weighs” each decision on assistance to Ukraine and “does not satisfy” all the demands of Kiev.
Earlier, Russia’s acting permanent representative to the EU, Kirill Logvinov, said that Brussels’ political line had not changed after the European parliamentary election – the political and economic union would continue its course “towards confrontation with Russia”.