Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer called the meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, April 11, tough and unfriendly, and its main goal was to bring to the Russian leader that the war must end now, writes Kronen Zeitung.

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Also at the meeting, it was unequivocally stated about the war crimes of the Russian army in Ukraine and the need for their international investigation..

“Nehammer made it clear that sanctions against Russia will continue and will be intensified while people are dying in Ukraine,” the Austrian publication notes..

The Putin administration said that the Russian side did not intend to make press statements following the talks with the Austrian chancellor..

Putin and Nehammer met in a country house in Ogaryovo on the outskirts of Moscow one on one without interpreters. The meeting was held without formal handshakes or group photos..

Over the weekend, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer was in Kyiv on a visit and visited the bombed-out Bucha, where the Russian invaders committed massacres, atrocities and looting.