Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Putin-Scholz phone call risks opening a 'Pandora's box'

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that his phone call to the Russian president on Friday would only serve to make Vladimir Putin feel less isolated.

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00:00Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has criticized a phone call between German Chancellor

00:07Olaf Scholz and Russia's leader Vladimir Putin as being like opening Pandora's box.

00:12Zelensky said the call risked making Putin feel less isolated internationally.

00:17He also criticized any further negotiations with the Kremlin that don't lead to any meaningful

00:22outcomes for Ukraine.

00:25Scholz spoke to Putin for the first time in two years on Friday.

00:29He condemned Russia's war in Ukraine and called on Putin to withdraw Russian troops

00:34from Ukrainian territory.

00:35He also urged Moscow to engage in negotiations with Kiev in order to achieve a lasting peace.

00:42A statement from the Kremlin said that Putin emphasized any potential agreement must reflect

00:47new territorial realities and address the root causes of the conflict.

00:52Putin also said the war in Ukraine was a direct result of NATO's aggressive policy.

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