“He (Scholz. -
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) plans to phone the Russian president in the next few weeks,” RIA Novosti quotes Hebeshtreit.
He added that Scholz considers it important to maintain regular contacts with Moscow, despite the different visions of the Ukrainian conflict.
On January 29, the press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov, said that Vladimir Putin’s schedule does not yet have a telephone conversation with Olaf Scholz, but Putin is open for communication.