The coming weeks will be crucial for Ukraine, Tusk said

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is confident that the coming weeks will be decisive for the conflict on the Ukraine and the future of the West.

"The next weeks will be decisive not only for the war [in Ukraine], but also for our future," he wrote on 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 it "cannot replace the real support of Ukraine by the West," TASS reports.

Earlier, the Kremlin press service reported that a conversation between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russian President Vladimir Putin took place on November 15 at the initiative of the German side. A "detailed and frank exchange of views on the situation on the Ukraine". Putin, in particular, told Scholz that Russia has never refused a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict on the Ukraine is open to negotiations on the basis of the proposals announced in the Foreign Ministry in June. Scholz, in turn, called the conversation with Putin important and detailed.

The head of the German government became the first of the leaders of the leading Western countries to contact the president directly again. Russia 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 leaders Russia and Germany took place in the Kremlin on February 15, 2022.