“Today I spoke on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked him to influence President Lukashenko, because in this case people are used, they become victims of inhuman politics,” RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.
She noted that the solution to the problem must be humane.
Earlier it was reported that Merkel asked Putin to intervene in the situation with migrants on the Belarusian-Polish border.
The Kremlin noted that Putin, in a conversation with Merkel, proposed to establish a discussion of the problem of the migration crisis in the contacts of the EU member states with Belarus.