ANKARA (Reuters) -German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said the planned Budapest talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were a second attempt to make the Russian President to recognise the need to negotiate seriously with Ukraine.
“I see the talks in Budapest as a second attempt, after the talks in Alaska, to convince Putin at last to negotiate seriously with Ukraine,” he told reporters during a trip to Turkey.
“Ukraine will insist on this, and it will have the full support of Germany in doing so,” he added.
(Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu and Thomas Escritt, editing by Kirsti Knolle)
