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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Germany is ready to act a security guarantor for Ukraine, said a German government spokesperson in Berlin.
Scholz signalled a "general willingness" about the role in a phone call with Zelenskiy, spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit told a regular news conference on Wednesday.
Hebestreit said he did not want to speculate about whether the security guarantor role would also include a military component.
(Reporting by Andreas Rinke and Paul Carrel; Writing by Miranda Murray; Editing by Maria Sheahan)