In an interview, Nehammer said the conversation with the Russian president in Moscow last week was not friendly, calling it “honest and tough.” He told NBC’s Meet The Press: “I think he now has his own war logic. He believes that war is necessary for security guarantees for the Russian Federation. He does not trust the international community. “He accuses the Ukrainians of genocide in the Donbas region.” In a previous press conference in Moscow, Mr Nehammer said he had made it clear to the president that “no one shares his position, his point of view”. The Austrian chancellor said Putin saw it as “a kind of self-defense operation by the Russian Federation. He calls it special military operations. I call it war. “ Prior to his visit to Moscow, Mr Nehammer had visited Bucha in Ukraine and reviewed the devastation left behind by Russian forces. He said he wanted to be a “first-hand witness” before meeting Putin, telling NBC that “we saw war crimes there [in Bucha]”. During his interview, he warned that “we have to look for his own [Putin’s] eyes and we have to deal with it, what we see in Ukraine. “ When asked by an NBC presenter what Putin’s reaction to his war crimes charge was, Mr. Nehammer said the Russian leader had promised to “cooperate in an international investigation, on the one hand, and on the other,” he told me. that it does. Do not trust the western world. That’s going to be the problem now, in the future. “ The chancellor also said that he had told Putin that “we need humanitarian corridors in Mariupol, we have to take care of the wounded.” The Austrian chancellor said there were no handshakes and no posing for photos during his meeting with Putin. Shortly after the broadcast of Meet the Press, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the opening of a delivery window in Mariupol for Sunday morning, saying that any Ukrainian forces that surrender their weapons during this period will not be harmed. There was no indication on the spot, later Sunday morning, that the offer had been received. Earlier on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that peace talks with Russia were “deadlocked because we would not trade our territory and our people.” He had said that if Russian forces pursued their threat to destroy the last Ukrainian troops fighting in the port of Mariupol, it would “end” the talks. Mr Zelensky also spoke with the leaders of Britain and Sweden on Saturday and discussed strategies on how to better assist Ukrainian forces in Mariupol and the remaining trapped civilians. In a speech to the nation, the Ukrainian president said the fate of Mariupol could be decided either through battle or diplomacy. He said: “Either our partners give Ukraine all the necessary heavy weapons, planes and – without exaggeration – immediately, so that we can reduce the pressure of the occupiers in Mariupol and break the blockade. “Or we do it through negotiations, in which the role of our partners should be decisive,” Zelensky added. Finally, the Austrian chancellor said that he left “pessimistic” from his meeting with the Russian leader. “We can all see that there is a preparation for a huge battle in the Dongas area. “We will see a lot of loss of life there – that is why I am pessimistic.” Mr Nehammer said Mr Putin believed the sanctions were “really tough”. But in his view, this war is “necessary.” Asked if he believed Putin would use nuclear weapons, the chancellor said: “It is a difficult question. He knows he has this weapon. And he knows the threat of this weapon. “I do not really know if he will use it, but he knows he can threaten people with this weapon.”
