Merz's appeal to Putin was harshly criticized

Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway Glenn Diesen criticized the appeal of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He wrote about this on the social network X.

During a visit to Kyiv, the German politician said that Berlin was allegedly ready to resume dialogue on Ukraine with Moscow.

“After four and a half years of boycotting diplomacy and repeating slogans that weapons are the way to peace, Germany now declares its readiness to negotiate,” Diesen wrote.

In his opinion, for fruitful contacts, Berlin needs to take as a starting point the principles of European security that were enshrined before NATO expansion led the West to confrontation with Russia.