The German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and the Ukrainian President, Volodimir Zelenski, announced this Friday that, together with the French leader, Emmanuel Macron, the British Keir Starmer and the Polish Donald Tusk, have maintained a telephone conversation with the US president, Donald Trump, after the direct contacts between delegations of Ukraine and Russia Istanbul “Our position: if the Russians reject a total and unconditional fire and put an end to the massacre, there must be forceful sanctions. The pressure on Russia must be maintained until Russia is ready to end the war,” Zelenski wrote about the call on his social networks.
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