West will not allow Russia a 'diktat peace' in Ukraine, says Germany's Scholz


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  • Tuesday, 17 May 2022

FILE PHOTO: Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz waits to welcome Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany May 16, 2022. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - Russia will not get away with trying to redraw Ukraine's borders by creating facts on the ground and waiting out Kyiv and its allies, Olaf Scholz said, insisting that the West would not stand for a "diktat," or dictated, peace forced on the country.

Ukraine's President Voldomyr said last week that Kyiv would not trade territory for peace with Russia, telling Italy's RAI television that he had been asked by French President Emmanuel Macron to consider doing so.

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