German Social Democratic (SPD) parliamentary party leader Rolf Mützenich has reiterated his call for more diplomatic action to end the Ukraine war. “I would like to see as much talk about diplomacy as about arms deliveries,” he told Saturday’s Neue Berliner Redaktionsgesellschaft newspaper chain. He sometimes had the impression that “diplomacy” was in danger of becoming a dirty word in the public discussion, he criticized.
It was not a matter of “negotiating with Russia over the heads of Ukraine,” Mützenich stressed, but it was necessary to talk to governments around the world “that could still have some influence on Putin.” He pleaded for “not closing small diplomatic windows carelessly.”