Speaking at a news conference on Friday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for preventing a military escalation over Ukraine by all means possible.
“We need to do everything in our power to avert a military aggression,” he said. “It is very important to have various negotiation formats at our disposal,” the chancellor continued, mentioning the Normandy Format involving Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine. “Together with France, we agreed to step up the negotiation process with Russia and Ukraine.”
Echoing Scholz, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that Kiev needs to make its contribution in Minsk agreements, in particular, to abstain from adopting laws that contradict the agreements,in comments quoted by the Sueddeutsche Zeitung according to TASS.
