German Foreign Minister Analena Burbock said on Saturday that she sees no basis for negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Ukraine in the near future.

“I wish we could negotiate. At this stage it’s not what we would like, but how we deal with reality,” Burbok said in a joint interview with Ukrainian former world boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko, when asked if negotiations with the Kremlin strongman would be possible. .

The interview was given on behalf of the German newspapers Bild and Die Welt, as well as the American magazine Politico.

The head of German diplomacy pointed out that before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, diplomatic efforts had been made to prevent the escalation of the crisis. “The answer to them was 100,000 troops to invade” Ukraine, Burbok said.

Ukraine must be able to regain peace, he stressed. “This will only happen if this brutal, aggressive war of Russia stops, if the Russian soldiers withdraw from the Ukrainian territory and the daily attacks with drones, missiles and bombs in Ukraine stop,” added the German foreign minister.