The leaders of Ukraine and Russia signaled that their previous refusal to dialogue with each other became more flexible after the promise of US President Donald Trump of ending the large -scale invasion of Moscow.
In an interview on Tuesday night with television host Piers Morgan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated his willingness to talk to his Russian homologist Vladimir Putin to end the war in the presence of Ukraine partners.
Your statement echoed comments made to Bloomberg News Last month, where he said he was ready to sit at the negotiation table with Russia alongside the US and the European Union.
Zelensky discards direct conversations with Putin for a long time. However, with Trump’s return to the White House and the Russian troops continuing to advance in eastern Ukraine, the attempt to end the three -year war has gained a new urgency.
“If this is the only arrangement in which we can bring peace to the citizens of Ukraine, we will definitely go through this arrangement,” Zelensky said when asked by Morgan about how he would feel sitting in front of the Russian leader. “What is the importance of my attitude toward him?”
“Talking to Putin – a conversation with this killer is already an assignment,” said Zelensky.
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Putin, who secured a fifth presidential term last March in Kremlin’s hard -controlled elections, said he could not negotiate an agreement with Zelensky, whom he called the illegitimate president.
Zelensky’s term formally ended last May, although new presidential elections cannot be held under martial law, which Ukraine declared at the beginning of the large -scale invasion of Russia.
However, Moscow’s position also seems to have changed. Despite Zelensky’s “big problems” in terms of legitimacy, “the Russian side remains open to negotiations,” Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Wednesday.
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