German Chancellor Olaf Scholz intends to contact Russian President Vladimir Putin in the coming weeks. Such an insider today, October 1, was issued by the German edition of Die Zeit.
According to media reports, Berlin intends to hold telephone talks with Moscow on the eve of the G20 summit, which will be held in Brazil in November 2024. But then it turned out that the German side had not yet officially requested a conversation with the Russian leader.
EADaily clarifies that the last phone conversation between Scholz and Putin took place in December 2022.

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