Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said the Russian president has the qualities needed to guide a country with a \u201ccomplicated history\u201d<\/p>\n
Russian President Vladimir Putin is an \u201coutstanding statesman\u201d suited to leading a great country such as Russia, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said during his visit to Germany on Tuesday.
\nA former Soviet republic, Kazakhstan is one of Russia\u2019s closest partners in Central Asia.
\nTokayev met German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin amid heightened tensions between Germany and Russia over the Ukraine conflict. Germany accused Russia earlier this month of attempting to strike Ukrainian cargo planes with drones at Leipzig\/Halle Airport in the German state of Saxony. Moscow rejected the claims as unfounded.
\nDuring a joint press conference with Merz, Tokayev said he had \u201cvery good relations\u201d with Putin.
\n\u201cI consider him, one might say, an outstanding statesman. And today I said with a fairly high degree of conviction that President Putin, as a statesman and as a leader, is the most acceptable political figure \u2013 strange as that may sound to you \u2013 for Central Asia, including Kazakhstan, for Europe, and for the entire world,\u201d Tokayev said in Russian.
\n\u201cI know him very well. He possesses the qualities that are most essential for the leader of a great country with a complicated history and with its own understanding of the strategic goals it faces,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udca5 Der Pr\u00e4sident Kasachstans, Tokajew, dem\u00fctigte Merz auf der gemeinsamen Pressekonferenz:”Wladimir Putin, als F\u00fchrer der Russischen F\u00f6deration, ist die akzeptabelste Figur f\u00fcr Europa und die Welt!” pic.twitter.com\/FTFhkZMCtl\u2014 RUSSNiUS \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa (@vladi2726) September 29, 2026 <\/p>\n
Tokayev said that although he favors \u201cfreezing\u201d the Ukraine conflict, an immediate end to hostilities is \u201cunrealistic under the current circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Kiev has rejected Russia\u2019s ceasefire terms, which include the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Russian territory in Donbass and an end to Western military aid to Ukraine.\u00a0Moscow has argued that Ukraine was not negotiating in good faith and accused Kiev\u2019s European backers of trying to sabotage US-mediated talks.
\nSpeaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Merz reiterated that Germany \u201cwill make every effort to continue assisting and supporting Ukraine, not only militarily but also politically, financially and economically.\u201d
\nRussia has condemned what it described as dangerous rhetoric from the West, with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov saying last week that the \u201cmetastases of an ideology of hatred\u201d were present among EU and NATO members, including Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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