Scholz explains why he keeps talking to Putin

Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said he keeps talking to Russian President Vladimir Putin because he wants to see the day when finding a solution for the ongoing conflict in Ukraine would finally be possible. Such a moment would hardly come if the sides stopped talking to each other, the chancellor told a public press conference in the German city of Potsdam on Saturday.

“I’ll keep talking to him,” Scholz said when asked if he would continue to engage in conversations with the Russian president. “I want to live to see the moment when it is possible to get out of the [current] situation,” he told the audience, adding that “you can’t do that if you do not talk to each other.”

Scholz also praised Putin’s good command of German and said that the Russian leader has always stayed “polite” during their conversations….