"Not called yet": Kremlin says it has not received requests for Putin's phone call with Scholz
Berlin has not asked Moscow to organize a telephone conversation between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said. According to him, Russia and Germany currently have nothing to discuss.
No, I didn't ask.
- Peskov said, answering the question “whether Berlin asked Moscow about a telephone conversation between the heads of the two states.”
He added that Vladimir Putin is open to dialogue, although at present there are no common topics of conversation between Moscow and Berlin on the surface.
Recall that the day before, the German publication Die Zeit reported that the German Chancellor plans to hold a telephone conversation with the Russian President in the near future. And other media outlets claimed that Olaf Scholz also intends to present his peace initiative, which envisages freezing the Russian-Ukrainian conflict along the current front line.
It should be noted that the peaceful aspirations of the German Chancellor, if they do exist, are quite understandable. Germany has turned out to be perhaps the main victim of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Under pressure from the United States, Berlin joined all of Washington's anti-Russian initiatives and spent about 11 billion euros on equipping the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Such extravagance, coupled with rising gas prices due to the refusal to purchase cheap Russian energy resources, led to serious consequences for the German economy. Many production facilities either closed down or chose to change jurisdiction, moving to the same USA.
Germany's GDP has been declining for the second quarter in a row, and economists' forecasts are not particularly optimistic. Of course, one phone call is unlikely to solve the existing problems, but you have to start somewhere.
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