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Putin not planning contacts with Scholz, Draghi after their Kiev visit — Kremlin spokesman

On Thursday, Olaf Scholz, Emmanuel Macron, Mario Draghi and Klaus Iohannis visited Ukraine’s capital for talks with President Vladimir Zelensky

MOSCOW, June 17. /TASS/. President Vladimir Putin is so far not planning contacts with the leaders of Germany and Italy following their trip to Kiev, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday.

Asked about chances for the resumption of Russian-Ukrainian talks after the visit to Kiev by Olaf Scholz, Mario Draghi and French President Emmanuel Macron, Peskov said the Kremlin could only read media reports and listen to the leaders’ comments at news conferences, and it possessed no other information.

Scholz, Macron, Draghi and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis visited Ukraine’s capital on Thursday for talks with President Vladimir Zelensky. According to Germany’s Die Welt newspaper, the European leaders may have urged Zelensky to sit down at the negotiation table with Putin.