{"id":120420,"date":"2025-05-21T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120420\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:02:08","slug":"germanys-merz-does-not-believe-in-quick-end-to-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120420\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Merz does not believe in quick end to war in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friedrich Merz. Stock photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that he sees no signs of a quick end to Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> German broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/merz-sees-no-signs-that-war-in-ukraine-will-end-soon\/a-72625600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DW<\/a>, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurointegration.com.ua\/news\/2025\/05\/21\/7212121\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Pravda<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> At a press conference in Berlin on Wednesday, Merz lowered expectations of a swift resolution to the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are currently no signs that this war will end quickly,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Merz noted that one can only hope that the conflicting parties can at least be brought together for constructive talks at the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>He also emphasised the importance of Germany playing an &#8220;active, supportive, strong&#8221; role in peace efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Merz\u2019s statement came after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/05\/19\/7513028\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a phone call<\/a> between US President Donald Trump and Russian ruler Vladimir Putin, which took place on Monday 19 May.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/05\/20\/7513238\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Trump had said during a phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders that he had asked Putin to come forward with a proposal that Ukraine and the Europeans would not immediately reject.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/05\/20\/7513240\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a> that the United States is waiting for a peace proposal from Russia to &#8220;have a much better understanding about Mr Putin&#8217;s calculation&#8221;.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friedrich Merz. Stock photo: Getty Images German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that he sees no signs of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,8621],"class_list":{"0":"post-120420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-russo-ukrainian-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114547139767283579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}