Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is confident that the coming weeks will be decisive for the conflict in Ukraine and the future of the West.
“The next few weeks will be decisive not only for the war [на Украине]but also for our future,” – wrote in X.
In addition, the head of the Polish government criticized Western countries for trying to establish “telephone diplomacy” with the Russian leadership, expressing the opinion that this “cannot replace true Western support for Ukraine,” TASS reports.
Earlier, the Kremlin press service reported that the conversation between the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin took place on November 15 at the initiative of the German side. There was a “detailed and frank exchange of views on the situation in Ukraine.” Putin, in particular, told Scholz that Russia has never given up on a political and diplomatic solution to the conflict in Ukraine and is open to negotiations on the basis of the proposals expressed in June at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Scholz, in turn, called the conversation with Putin important and detailed.
The head of the German government became the first of the leaders of major Western countries to return to direct contact with the president of the Russian Federation after almost two years. The last time Putin and Scholz had a telephone conversation was in December 2022. The last face-to-face meeting of the leaders of the Russian Federation and Germany took place in the Kremlin on February 15, 2022.
