DAILY NIGERIAN
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned President Vladimir Putin against creating a frozen conflict along the borders of the Ukrainian territories seized by Russia.
This was in remarks published in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper on Friday.
“Russia has to understand that the aim cannot be to conclude a kind of cold peace, by turning the current frontier into a new ‘border’ between Russia and Ukraine.
“That will merely legitimate Putin’s raid.
“The aim rather is a fair peace, and a precondition for that is the withdrawal of Russian troops,’’ Scholz said.
He would not be drawn on the future of the Crimean Peninsula, occupied by Russia in 2014.
Asked whether his condition applied to Crimea, he repeated what he had said.
“The withdrawal of troops. It is not our business to formulate on behalf of Ukraine the agreements that they wish to reach…
