Scholz Comments On Putin's Words About Belarus

• 22.08.2022, 11:00

The German Chancellor says the Kremlin head has "absolutely absurd ideas".

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has attacked Ukraine for "absurd" reasons and declared that Ukraine and Belarus "should not be separate states". German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stated this Open Day in his Chancellery, liga.net writes.

"NATO has never posed a threat to Russia," he said, rejecting accusations that Alliance members allegedly did not care about Russia's security interests before a full-scale war.

He assured Putin before Feb. 24 that Ukraine's accession to NATO would not happen "in the next 30 years."

Scholz says Putin has "'completely absurd ideas". Putin told him Belarus and Ukraine "should not be separate states."

"This is a war that Putin, Russia, has started, and obviously with the intent to conquer a neighbouring country. I think it was the original goal," Scholz said.

The German chancellor says Putin had the idea of drawing a marker across the European landscape and then saying, "This is mine and this is yours." Scholz states "it doesn't work this way."