Sanctions will only end when Putin accepts Ukraine invasion is a failure, western Leaders hope

Western sanctions against Russia will only end when Putin accepts that his plans in Ukraine will not succeed, Germany’s chancellor has said.

“All the sanctions we imposed over Crimea are still there. All the sanctions we imposed because of the Russian-incited uprising in Donbas are still there. And the same will go for the decisions taken now, which are much more severe,” Olaf Scholz said at the closing news conference of the three-day G7 summit in Germany.

“There is only one way out: for Putin to accept that his plans in Ukraine will not succeed,” he added.