Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a cellphone name on Friday that the German and Western line on Ukraine was “damaging” and urged Berlin to rethink its strategy, the Kremlin stated.

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It stated Putin defended Russia’s missile strikes on targets in Ukraine and stated Russia ought to be allowed to take part in investigations into what it known as the “terrorist” assaults on the Nord Stream fuel pipelines underneath the Baltic Sea.