Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that his phone call to the Russian president on Friday would only serve to make Vladimir Putin feel less isolated.
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00:00Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has criticized a phone call between German Chancellor
00:07Olaf Scholz and Russia's leader Vladimir Putin as being like opening Pandora's box.
00:12Zelensky said the call risked making Putin feel less isolated internationally.
00:17He also criticized any further negotiations with the Kremlin that don't lead to any meaningful
00:22outcomes for Ukraine.
00:25Scholz spoke to Putin for the first time in two years on Friday.
00:29He condemned Russia's war in Ukraine and called on Putin to withdraw Russian troops
00:34from Ukrainian territory.
00:35He also urged Moscow to engage in negotiations with Kiev in order to achieve a lasting peace.
00:42A statement from the Kremlin said that Putin emphasized any potential agreement must reflect
00:47new territorial realities and address the root causes of the conflict.
00:52Putin also said the war in Ukraine was a direct result of NATO's aggressive policy.
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