"Talking for a very long time": Scholtz told when he last contacted Putin

According to the German Chancellor, a personal meeting was the last time before the full -scale war. Then they negotiated at a long table with the Russian president for more than four hours. At the same time, they stopped talking relatively recently. The German Chancellor had previously been in contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, as it turned out, they have not communicated for over a year. He told about it for Märkische Allgemeine.

According to him, the last telephone conversation with the Kremlin head took place in December 2022, but before that they communicated much more often. Also, German Chancellor mentioned, as in February 2022, before the start of a full -scale war, he visited Moscow for a personal meeting with Vladimir Putin. There they sat at a long table and discussed important issues. "A few days before the war, we talked personally in Moscow for a very long time.

Remember the long table that I had to sit with him because he was concerned about the coronavirus? We discussed it for more than four hours," Olaf Soltz said. Separately, the German politician expressed the opinion that the decision to end the war is in the hands of the exclusively President of the Russian Federation. To do this, he needs to give his troops to leave the Ukrainian territory. "Let me very clearly say one thing: peace is possible at any time.