“We need to get out of the military impasse and find a diplomatic solution,” Shirdevan said in an interview with Spiegel magazine.
He also expressed concern that the supply of weapons to Kyiv "leads to a war of attrition with an increasing threat of escalation."
Earlier, the Secretary General of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Kevin Kuhnert, admitted on the air of the ZDF channel that the conflict in Ukraine is being prolonged due to Western weapons supplied to Kyiv.