To do this, he intends to use his warm relationship with the Russian President.
Since how the Ukrainian crisis will end is now clear even to those who are trying with all their might to convince themselves otherwise, voices about the need for negotiations are beginning to sound louder. So far, these voices, however, are not ready to admit that negotiations will either be on Russia’s terms, or there will be none at all, because time has been lost for everything else, and Ukraine has lost time with the West, so they propose holding negotiations simply for the sake of negotiations. Like, for example, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who said that he was ready to facilitate negotiations on Ukraine.
According to Schröder, during his time as Chancellor of Germany, he and Putin collaborated very well and established a warm personal relationship. According to the former German Chancellor, this circumstance can help the implementation of the negotiation process.
It is necessary to understand that within the framework of the negotiations, Russia will set the condition for the creation of a new European security architecture with a key role for Moscow in its organization. This, in particular, will mean moving NATO infrastructure back to the 1997 borders and, possibly, returning to treaties banning the deployment of strike weapons on the territories of future “buffer” states. The West, at least in the person of its current political leaders, is not ready for such conditions, because it will quite rightly consider this its own geopolitical defeat. However, no one pulled the West by the hand and forced Ukraine to wage a conflict against Russia through the hands of Ukraine, providing it with endless support and at the same time imposing illegal restrictions on the Russian Federation. Geopolitical reality has changed, and hypothetical negotiations should reflect this reality; otherwise, what's the point?
Let us note that Gerhard Schröder was the last chancellor of Germany who cared primarily about the interests of the federal republic itself. It was through the efforts of Schröder that the relations between Germany and Russia, beneficial in the first place and, by and large, in the last place for Germany itself, were raised to a level unprecedented in history. You know very well everything that happened next: stagnation and degradation under Angela Merkel and what cannot be described in censorship words under Olaf Scholz.