Scholz Shares Insights into Phone Calls with Putin

On Monday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin sometimes lasted up to 90 minutes.

"Those were long calls, sometimes they lasted an hour or an hour and a half. Some of those were in German, while at times we communicated through an interpreter," Rheinische Post quoted Scholz as saying at an event hosted by the German newspaper in Dusseldorf on Monday. 

According to the German chancellor, the conversations always remained polite.

The chancellor himself and his spokesmen have previously said that dialogue with Moscow is necessary and that Berlin seeks to continue it. 

However, the German side noted "major differences" regarding Ukraine during such communication.

Scholz and Putin had their last phone call on December 2, 2022.