German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz intends to hold a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the coming weeks.
This was reported by the German publication Die Zeit, citing sources in the German government.
What is known about Scholz's plans to call Putin
According to Die Zeit , Scholz's entourage is considering the possibility of a telephone conversation with the Russian president ahead of the G20 summit.
It will take place in November in Brazil. It is specified that Berlin has not yet officially requested the conversation.
The last telephone conversation between the German Chancellor and the Russian President took place in December 2022.
Since then, official representatives of the German government and Scholz himself have repeatedly stated that they do not rule out another call.
The German Chancellor last expressed such an intention in June. The Russian President's press secretary Dmitry Peskov then said that a conversation with Scholz was not planned for now.
In early September, the German Chancellor said that the time had come to discuss how to speed up the end of the conflict in Ukraine, and he called for Russia's participation in the next peace summit.
