After all, Putin and Zelenskyy will not find

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday that it is “evident that there will be no meeting” between the Ukrainian President and Russian homologous nnum immediate future.

“It is evident that There will be no meeting Between President Zelenskyy and President Putin, contrary to what was agreed between the president [norte-americano, Donald] Trump and President Putin, ”said the German leader alongside French head of state Emmanuel Macron on the occasion of a Franco-Germanic Council of Ministers who today started in France.

A possible meeting between the two belligerents was defended and by Trump, who met with Putin in Alaska and Zelenskyy and several European leaders at the White House in Washington.

The German chancellor confirmed on the 18th of this month that the Russian President accepted, in a telephone conversation with the US President, to meet with the Ukrainian counterpart, somewhere in the next two weeks.

“We are ready for a bilateral meeting and then it can be trilateral. We are ready for any kind of format, but at the level of leaders,” said Zelenskyy.

In turn, Russian diplomacy head, Serguei Lavrov, had already guaranteed “no meeting was planned” between Putin and Zelenskyy.

Both Moscow and Kiev have been mutually accused of not wanting negotiations and putting an end to the conflictin a phase of the war where Russia continues its attacks on civil targets in various areas of Ukraine, including in the Ukrainian capital, and controls about 20% of the country’s territory that invaded by 2022.

After the meetings with Trump was discussed the possibility of a bilateral summit (Putin-Zelensky) and a trilateral that would also include the American leader.

Some European countries, such as Austria and Switzerland, offered their capitals to welcome US leaders and some Hungarian media have raised the possibility of Budapest to be an option for these negotiations.

Since then, Donald Trump has admitted that being with Putin and Zelenskyy would be how and admitted that he would “prefer not to be present” in the negotiations.

Zelenskyy has been stressed several times after the Russian attacks that have aimed at the Ukrainian territory that Moscow has shown that it is not available for dialogue. This Friday, following a Russian attack on Kiev that caused at least 19 dead and almost 50 injured, Zelenskyy stressed on social network X that “until Russia takes effective steps toward peace, the pressure on the country must be intensified.” The attacks, which involved missiles and drones, damaged about a hundred buildings in the Ukrainian capital, including the and British Council.

Ukraine leader’s statements were made after a conversation with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. The president of the European Commission did not hide the indignation to the attacks on Kiev and promised Another package of sanctions “To maintain the maximum pressure on Russia.”