French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have asked Russian President Vladimir Putin in a telephone conversation to restart peace talks with Ukraine “immediately”, the report said. BBC Sunday. Also, Russia should immediately stop waging war against the country and withdraw its troops.
France and Germany are influential EU countries, so their request to Putin matters, experts tell the BBC† Not all of Ukraine’s allies would be happy with Macron and Scholz’s move. That would put too much pressure on Ukraine to give territory to Russia in exchange for peace.
Peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia were concluded in mid-May suspended† Shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the two countries met to reach a peace agreement.
Both countries have toned down or abandoned previously set goals to achieve this, but they have not come closer together on a number of important points. As a result, conversations have often been shut down.
Putin would like to talk to Ukraine again
The leaders of the two influential EU countries are said to have spoken to Putin for eighty minutes. The Russian president is open to new talks, the Kremlin reports.
His Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky was not keen on that before. In his view, Russia would not understand that the country should make less stringent demands in the talks, because it has been less successful in the war than hoped.
Zelensky announced on Wednesday only personal to want to talk about peace with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. According to him, that is the only way to restart the stalled negotiations between the two countries.
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