“It may still take a long time before the war in Ukraine ends” the German Chancellor repeated yesterday Olaf Solz speaking at an event for the Rheinische Post newspaper in Dusseldorf.

“We should realize that this terrible, aggressive war and its consequences will concern us for a long time and that it will take a long time to restore the ruins,” the chancellor said.

He believes, however, that any overthrow of power in Moscow should not come by force from abroad, noting that efforts to achieve peace – but not at the behest of Russia – should in any case continue.

Solz-Putin conversations in German

But what the German chancellor reveals about the phone calls he has with the Russian president is also of interest. Vladimir Putin. According to Olaf Solz, these phone calls last about an hour and a half, with their last communication last December.

In fact, in these telephone conversations the Russian president often does not use the German translation, because he himself fully understands the content in German. In fact, sometimes, “when it suits the occasion”, Olaf Solz characteristically mentions, Vladimir Putin answers in German.

Despite the difference of opinion on Ukraine, which Olaf Solz makes clear at every opportunity, he reveals that the phone calls are nevertheless made in a polite tone. However, he emphasized that from the German side, it is always clear to the Russian president that “only Russia is responsible for the war in Ukraine”, invading a foreign country, seizing parts of it and disrupting the peaceful order of things in Europe.