Olaf Scholz’s phone call with Vladimir Putin was criticised by European leaders on Sunday as Russian missiles rained down in Ukraine in one of the biggest attacks of the war.Moscow unleashed a massive combined assault of more than 200 missiles and drones across the whole of Ukraine overnight,

Germany's government says that Chancellor Olaf Scholz had a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the first such conversation in two years.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reaffirmed Germany's support for Ukraine after taking flak for speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying that no decision on ending the war with Russia would be taken without Kyiv.