NATO chief thanks Joe Biden for his support to Ukraine

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said that ‘western sanctions against Russia will only end when Putin accepts that his plans in Ukraine will not succeed.’ Speaking at the G7 summit, the Chancellor highlighted all the punitive measures on Russia imposed after its invasion of Crimea were still in place. Thus, he said that the only way out of sanctions was to accept failure in Ukraine. 

“All the sanctions we imposed over Crimea are still there. All the sanctions we imposed because of the Russian-incited uprising in Donbas are still there. And the same will go for the decisions taken now, which are much more severe,” Olaf Scholz said at the closing news conference. “There is only one way out: for Putin to accept that his plans in Ukraine will not succeed,” he added.