 Putin is afraid that this is our plan, Schultz. Olaf Schultz, Chancellor of Germany, has stated that the West has no plans to make efforts to change the political regime in the Russian Federation, but Vladimir Putin is convinced that it has such plans. According to Deutsche Well-Media outlet Olaf Schultz said that the West is not trying to change the political regime in Russia. We do not decide who sits where. We also do not plan regime change in Russia. But the Russian President is afraid that this is our plan. Putin will have to live with the fact that the European Union is his neighbour. Open societies like the Union of Liberal Democracies will hope that freedom is not a virus, the Chancellor said. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Putin has been absent from the global political arena. In March, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin on charges of participating in a scheme to deport Ukrainian children to Russia. Earlier, Schultz said that the European Union and the German government are not aiming to change the regime in Russia and that they were not involved in the attempted rebellion by the private military company Wagner Group. Instead, Germany's goal is an independent Ukraine, he said, warning the war can still last a long time. This is a problem Putin has brought on himself. Schultz said, adding that the mutiny showed that it is irresponsible to put military force in private hands. He also accused Wagner of committing crimes and unforgivable actions in Ukraine, but also in conflicts in Africa.