Several days have passed since it came to light with the purpose of reducing war tension, which in recent weeks has worsened with the entry of North Korea into the conflict, the reactions of Western leaders They continue to occur in the form of a cascade.
One of the last to do so has been the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, who through a publication in X, criticized Scholz’s call and assured that “telephone diplomacy cannot replace real support” to Ukraine. “No one will stop Putin with phone calls,” he said on the social network last Sunday.
One of the arguments that Tusk put forward was precisely the Russian attack that took place in Ukraine during the early hours of Sunday: “Last night’s attack (Saturday), one of the largest in this war, “has shown that telephone diplomacy cannot replace the real support of the entire West for Ukraine.”he pointed out. “The next few weeks will be decisive, not only for the war itself, but also for our future,” concluded the Polish president.
being the most massive and one of the most damaging in the more than two and a half years of war.
This attack showed that the call held just a few days before between Scholz and Putin It had not had the desired effect, and as the hours passed, numerous allied countries criticized said ‘unilateral’ contact by the top German leader.
Another country that was very critical of the call was Lithuania, whose geographical position, bordering Belarus, makes it especially vulnerable to any escalation of tension. Thus, his Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, He assured on Saturday that “history continues to tell us that true peace can only be achieved through force.”
In this way, he described the phone call as “the last gasp of the failed strategy of negotiating territory for ‘peace’ with a genocidal dictator,” and stressed that the German request to “show its willingness to negotiate with Ukraine, with the aim of achieving a just and lasting peace” is not the solution.
Finally, it was Volodymyr Zelensky himself who openly denounced the call and lamented that “now there may be other conversations and other calls. But only many words,” Zelensky said in his evening speech. “This is exactly what Putin has wanted for a long time: it is essential that he loosen his isolation,” he concluded.
