The Austrian Chancellor flies to Moscow from Putin: “I’m a pessimist, he doesn’t think about negotiating”

MOSCOW – He arrived in Russia with a list of overly ambitious goals: the opening of humanitarian corridors, a truce and a clarification on the war crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine. He left with his tail between his legs, or almost. “I’m pretty pessimistic,” said the Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammerthe first European leader to fly from Vladimir Putin since the beginning of the Russian intervention in Ukraine.