Ties to Russia cannot return to what they were pre-Ukraine war - Scholz

FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz waits for U.S. President Joe Biden for a bilateral meeting ahead of the G7 leaders summit at Bavaria's Schloss Elmau castle, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, June 26, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said at a summit of the Group of Seven rich democracies on Monday there would be no return to the times before Russia's attack on Ukraine, which had ushered in long-term changes in international relations.

"When the situation changes, we have to change," Scholz said in a televised statement at the end of the second day of the G7 summit taking place in a castle resort in the Bavarian Alps.