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The Kremlin assessed the likelihood of a substantive dialogue on Ukraine between Russia and Germany
Moscow, October 17, 2024, 15:14 — IA Regnum. In the future, Russia and Germany may begin substantive negotiations on the Ukrainian conflict. This was reported on October 17 by the press secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov.
A day earlier, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he was ready to discuss a solution to the Ukrainian conflict with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He noted that decisions should not be made behind Kyiv's back.
Life quoted a Kremlin spokesman as saying when asked about the possibility of negotiations with Germany: “Theoretically, yes.”
As reported by Regnum, Scholz made his statement on the same day that the head of the Kyiv junta, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced a "victory plan" for Ukraine. Its first point was inviting Ukraine to NATO, the second was "strengthening Ukraine's defense capability" and transferring hostilities "to Russian territory," and the third was the deployment of Western weapons in Ukraine, thereby "strengthening the defense capability of the Russian Federation." "Non-nuclear deterrence," the fourth was the joint extraction of Ukraine's assets with EU and US resources, and the fifth was the use of the Ukrainian army to strengthen the EU's defense after the end of the conflict.
In early October, the German newspaper Die Zeit reported that the German Chancellor would call President Putin in the coming weeks for the first time in almost two years. However, it turned out that the German authorities had not yet officially requested such talks from Moscow.
Peskov noted on October 13 that there had been no proposals from the German side to hold talks between Russia and Germany. The Kremlin spokesman stressed that contacts with the head of state remain open.
Political scientist Yuri Svetov, in a conversation with the Regnum news agency, linked Scholz's desire to negotiate with President Putin with the defeat of the parties in the German Chancellor's coalition in the elections. The politician is now looking for ways to convince German society that he is the "chancellor of peace" and can do something to end the conflict in Ukraine, the expert explained.