Fabio De Masi, a European Parliament member and co-chair of Germany’s BSW party, has called upon his government to break out of the spiral of escalation and start a dialogue with Moscow.

"Together with the EU, we have, among other things, transferred 90 billion [euro] to Ukrainian oligarchs to prolong the war of attrition that cannot be won. Meanwhile, as far as Russia is concerned, there have been calls to toughen sanctions," the parliamentarian continued. "As the BSW party, we demand to break out of this spiral of escalation. We need communication channels with Russia in order to put an end to this madness!"