- The German chancellor has also commented that the Russian president has "no disposition to negotiate".

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Scholz speaks with Putin: "I have to say that I have appreciated movements in him"

The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has claimed to have appreciated "certain movements" by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in the last conversation held a few days ago with the Kremlin leader, although he admits that this supposed change is still insufficient.

"If I summarize all the conversations that I have had with him in recent times, I have to say that there have been movements," he assured, in statements to Deutschlandfunk public radio.

Unfortunately, these movements "were not far-reaching, as we all know and as Ukrainians suffer on a daily basis," adds the chancellor.

Scholz held a telephone conversation with Putin last Tuesday, the content of which, as usual, the German Foreign Ministry has not given detailed information.

Scholz himself has not revealed its content in the successive appearances before the media in which he has been required to do so these days.

In his statements on public radio, Scholz confirms his condemnation of the war of aggression launched by Russia on Ukraine and points out that Putin is pursuing "imperialist objectives" on the neighboring territory.

Scholz regrets that, despite these "movements" that he claims to have appreciated in Putin, he did not observe in the Russian president "any willingness to negotiate" nor any intention to recognize as "error" the invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24.

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