Ukrainian and Russian leaders signaled that their previous refusal to talk to each other was softened, following President Donald Trump’s promise to end Moscow’s full-scale invasion.
In an interview late Tuesday with television host Piers Morgan, Ukrainian President Voldimir Zelensky spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the presence of a Ukrainian partner, in order to end the war with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. I repeated preparations to do it.
His statement reflected in Bloomberg News last month that he was ready to sit at a table negotiating with Russia along with the US and the European Union.
Zelensky has long been eliminating direct consultations with Putin. But as Trump returns to the White House and Russian troops continue to advance in eastern Ukraine, bidding to end the third year of war has a new urgency.
“If this is the only setup that can bring peace to Ukrainian citizens, then you can definitely go to this setup,” he asks Morgan about feeling sitting on the other side of the Russian leader. Zelensky said when he was there. “What is the important thing about my attitude towards him?”
“To talk to Putin is one conversation with this murderer is already a compromise,” Zelensky said.
Putin, who secured his fifth presidential term in a tightly controlled election last March, said he could not negotiate a deal with Zelensky, which he called a non-Gi sex president.
Zelensky’s term of office officially ended in May last year, but the new presidential election cannot be held under martial law. Ukraine declared at the beginning of a full-scale Russian invasion.
Despite this, Moscow’s position seems to have changed. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists Wednesday.
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