
And for the moment the Ukrainian President Volodimyr Zelenskyy has condemned a phone call between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russia's President Vladimir Putin. During an hour-long conversation – their first in nearly two years – Scholz told Putin to end the war and stressed German support for Ukraine. But Kyiv says talks with Putin never lead anywhere.
For more on this you can watch the Deutsche Welle's Russia analyst Konstantin Eggert speaking about it, then the the reporters are talking to Deutsche Welle correspondent Rebecca Ritters in Kyiv, and our political correspondent Giulia Saudelli, who's in Wiesbaden today. The Deutsche Welle video chapters are the following:
- 00:00 Zelenskyy condemns Scholz-Putin phone call
- 02:09 Interview with Deutsche Welle's Konstantin Egger
- 06:34 Talk with Deutsche Welle's Rebecca Ritters and Giulia Saudelli