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Chancellor: Scholz: We don’t need a dictated peace for Ukraine

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Chancellor
Scholz: No need for dictated peace for Ukraine

Does not rule out a future discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin: Olaf Scholz. Photo

© Michael Kappeler/dpa

Before international consultations for peace in Ukraine, Putin presents conditions for an end to his war. Chancellor Scholz rejects these.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has rejected Kremlin chief Vladimir’s maximum demands for an end to the Ukraine war as a push for a dictated peace. What Putin is proposing is to “put an imperialist raid into documents,” the SPD politician told ARD on the sidelines of the G7 summit in southern Italy. “What we need is not a dictated peace, but a fair, just peace that takes integrity and sovereignty into account.”

The peace conference starting on Saturday in Switzerland is an important first step towards this, even if the big questions will not be decided there, said Scholz.

Immediately before the consultations of almost 60 heads of state and government in Lucerne, Putin had demanded that Ukraine completely renounce the territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhia and the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which are claimed by Russia, and demanded that Ukraine not seek any prospects as a NATO member.

Scholz did not want to rule out a conversation with Putin in the future. He has said time and again that he would do it again, but it has to be the right time. “Such a conversation only makes sense if there is something concrete to discuss.”