Berlin (dpa) - The head of the parliamentary bloc of the Social Democratic Party, partner in the ruling coalition, called on Germany not to rule out holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin under certain conditions.

"Such talks cannot be imposed ... but if President Putin is ready to hold reliable talks with the heads of state and government of the European Union as well as with NATO and with Ukraine, this should not be fundamentally excluded.

The prominent German politician stressed the necessity of linking such talks to tangible framework conditions, and continued, saying: "The German Chancellor (Olaf Scholz) has sufficient experience to decide with the partners the timing at which he sees conducting these talks."

But Mutsniech indicated that he did not see any special role for Germany in this, and said: "On the contrary, I warn against assuming a special role now." Instead, he called for the need to reach close agreements with partners.

The German Socialist stressed, saying: "I still assume that this war will not be resolved through an absolute victory on the battlefield, but through discussions, negotiations and agreements in the end," pointing out that wars were ended in the past in this way as well, and he said: "We must be They are always able to take advantage of certain signals indicating a possible cease-fire, to enter into diplomatic talks again, but such signals do not exist at present.

It is noteworthy that there have been only sporadic contacts between the Western allies and Russia since the latter's attack on Ukraine last February.