Scholtz spoke about the conversation with Putin before the full -scale war. He said that "Ukraine and Belarus should not be independent"

German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz stated that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin had launched a war for "absolutely absurd" reasons and told him that Ukraine could not be independent. The German leader told about it at the open door in his office on August 21, Welt reports. Scholz stated that NATO was never a threat to the Russian Federation and rejected the accusation that Member States did not care about the interests of Russian security before the full war.

Video of the day, according to Chancellor, discussing before the invasion of Putin of Ukraine's accession to NATO, he assured the dictator that "it would not be on the agenda for the next 30 years. " Scholt also stated that Putin then told him that Belarus and Ukraine "should not be separate states. " The chancellor says that the Russian dictator wanted to spend a marker on the landscape of Europe, and then say, "This is mine, which is yours. " Sholtz is convinced that "it doesn't work so.