{"id":17653,"date":"2025-02-13T20:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=17653"},"modified":"2025-02-13T20:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:55:05","slug":"scholz-rejects-dictated-peace-for-ukraine-after-trump-putin-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/scholz-rejects-dictated-peace-for-ukraine-after-trump-putin-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholz rejects ‘dictated peace’ for Ukraine, after Trump-Putin call"},"content":{"rendered":"
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Thursday a deal to end the Ukraine war should not be imposed on Kyiv, after US President Donald Trump agreed to open negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a call.<\/p>\n

“The next task is to ensure that there is no dictated peace,” Scholz told news outlet Politico in an interview.<\/p>\n

Trump, after speaking to Putin on Wednesday, said that talks to bring an end to the conflict in Ukraine, which began with Russia’s invasion almost three years ago, would start “immediately”.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Wednesday, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said Ukraine’s aim of returning to its pre-2014 borders was “illusionary” and dubbed Kyiv’s wish to join the US-led NATO alliance “not realistic”.<\/p>\n

At a meeting of Ukraine’s military backers in Brussels, Hegseth also made clear that the United States would not deploy troops on the ground.<\/p>\n

“Instead, any security guarantee must be backed by capable European and non-European troops,” he said.<\/p>\n

Germany’s Defence Minister Boris Pistorius responded Thursday that it was “regrettable” that Trump’s administration had made “concessions” to Russia before peace talks on Ukraine had even started.<\/p>\n

“In my view it would have been better to speak about a possible NATO membership for Ukraine or possible losses of territory at the negotiating table,” Pistorius said ahead of a NATO meeting in Brussels.<\/p>\n

Scholz said in the interview that transatlantic unity must “always be guaranteed”.<\/p>\n

“It is quite clear to me that there can be no solution that is not also a solution in which the USA is involved,” Scholz said.<\/p>\n

The chancellor at the same time ruled out for the moment sending German troops to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

“Everyone knows that this is out of the question now,” he said.<\/p>\n

At this stage it was “not clear under what conditions Ukraine would be prepared to agree to a peace agreement”, Scholz said.<\/p>\n

Ukraine needed the opportunity to develop “even after the peace agreement”, Scholz said.<\/p>\n

This meant having “a strong army” that would be larger than before the war and equipped with western weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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