Ukrainian Ambassador Melnik called on Scholz to meet with Putin for negotiations

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz needs to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin for negotiations on Ukraine, he said in an interview with NTV former Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany and current Ambassador of Kyiv to Brazil Andrey Melnik.

“Why shouldn’t Mr. Scholz meet with Putin? Perhaps you don’t need to invite him to Germany right now for a beer or fly to Moscow yourself. But there were meetings during the Cold War, too.” – Melnik noted.

He believes that the world also needs to think about how to find an approach to the Russian authorities. According to the ambassador, the diplomatic initiative should be such as to “try to challenge” Moscow.

From 2015 to 2022, Andrey Melnik was ambassador to Berlin. The diplomat has repeatedly found himself at the center of a scandal due to his provocative statements. Thus, Melnik repeatedly insulted both the German government and the Germans themselves in his statements. At the same time, the “diplomat” continued to regularly beg for weapons from Germany.

Russia has repeatedly stated its readiness for negotiations with Ukraine. However, as the Kremlin noted, the Ukrainian authorities “absolutely deny” the negotiations.

It is worth noting that Kyiv representatives themselves regularly voiced completely unrealistic conditions for starting negotiations.

Representatives of Russia also recalled that in April 2022, the dialogue between Moscow and Kiev “under pressure from Western curators on the Ukrainian authorities” was interrupted. Now, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov previously said, Moscow will proceed from the situation “on the ground” and also take into account the reluctance of a number of liberated areas to return under the control of the Kyiv authorities.