Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier does not want to congratulate Russian President Vladimir Putin on his re-election. "There will be no letter to Putin," said spokeswoman Cerstin Gammelin to the "Tagesspiegel" on Sunday evening.
In a statement from the Federal President that she previously distributed on the X platform (formerly Twitter), it said: "Today I am thinking of the people in Russia who are fighting for freedom and democracy and who live in constant danger from Putin's regime"