Poland’s Duda Says Scholz Undermining Trump Push to End War
- Duda warned Trump in call of Germany’s Kremlin dealmaking
- Polish president takes aim at Scholz’s phone call with Putin
Andrzej Duda and Olaf Scholz in 2022.
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Poland’s head of state accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz of trying to cut Donald Trump out of talks over the future of Ukraine in a bid to revive Germany’s own relations with Russia.
Scholz drew criticism from the government in Kyiv and some of its allies over his phone call last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which he justified by saying he aimed to push the Kremlin leader to negotiate a lasting peace with Ukraine.