"We should discuss": Scholtz proposes to invite the Russian Federation to the Second Peace Summit
Olaf Scholz, a Federal Chancellor of Germany, told about further opportunities for Ukraine support and peace talks with the Russian Federation in an interview with Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF). Scholz spoke with journalists within a traditional summer interview, according to the ZDF portal. Other topics relevant to the Germans were asked about Germany's policy on Ukraine and the Russian-Ukrainian war. The politician assured that he would make efforts that the help did not stop.
He also stated that Russia should take part in the next peace conference. Chancellor mentioned that he had a confidential conversation with President Vladimir Zelensky on the further course of the Russian-Ukrainian war. "We need to discuss how we can get out of this situation of war and reach peace faster than it seems at the moment. In any case, there will be another peaceful conference and I agree that it should go through Russia," he said chancellor.
The interlocutor of journalists on the Ukrainian question explained that he will "fulfill the tasks that are now set on the map. " At the same time, he acknowledged that his political force, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), lost the votes of some voters through the position of Scholz and his colleagues in the government. "The election results are also due to the fact that some citizens do not agree that we support Ukraine," the words of Scholz have given on the ZDF portal.
It should be noted that the representatives of the Russian Federation was not at the First Global Peace Summit, which took place in June 2024, earlier wrote Focus. The results of the summit were conveyed by the policies of one of the participating countries, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at one time. After that, in August 2024, a breakthrough of the Armed Forces in the Kursk region began and the Kremlin first reported that there could be no talk of any peace talks.
However, President Vladimir Putin once again reminded that the requirements of the Russian Federation are in Istanbul agreements and he proposes to make them a basis for peaceful negotiations. Meanwhile, on September 6, Zelensky interviewed NBS News, in which he stated that certain regions of Kursk region would be under the control of Ukraine until Russia has been negotiating.
He also reported that the main points of the end of the war will receive three American politicians: the current US President Joe Biden and the presidential candidates Democrat Camla Harris and Republican Donald Trump. In mid -August, German government officials decided to reduce assistance to Ukraine. At the same time, they emphasized that they do so in view of the use of Russian assets to cover the needs of a warring country.