Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelansky said he is “ready” to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet the Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war between his countries.
“Sometimes we need it. Even if we don’t love the face,” Zelancesi asked CNN’s Farid Zakaria to laugh at the Yalta European Strategy Conference on Friday in Ukraine’s Kiev. The interview broadcast on Sunday.
Zelancesi said that a ceasefire should be included before finding peace.
“So there is an order of points of discussions. First, we need a meeting with the result of the ceasefire. And he is not ready for the meeting for today. It is true. Yes. Then if he wants to speak about the states and about some historical crazy things and at setters, I am ready to talk with him, but not through Americans, not through my support.”
Last month, President Trump said that he Started arrangement For a meeting between the two leaders during a phone call with Putin. Call came a few days after meeting Trump and Putin Summit in Alaska And met the former on the same day Zelansky and European Leader In the White House.
Zelanski and Putin have not met individually as Russia began their full -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Last month, Zelansky said In a Telegram Post that Putin rejection of a ceasefire agreement “complicates the situation” about a peace agreement “. In a meeting with Zelansky and European leaders in Washington, Trump said that a ceasefire deal is not a condition for a meeting between Ukrainian leader and his Russian equivalent.
According to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusks, Zelansky’s Friday’s comments come after shooting several Russian drones by NATO Jets in the Polish airspace. According to The Associated Press, on Sunday, the Russian officials and the Ukrainian Army said the Ukrainian drone killed an oil refinery in the Leningrad area of Russia.
Russia’s army Lives completely Luhansk, Donnetsk, Zaporizhjia and Kherson regions of Ukraine. Russia also gained control of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. When Zakaria was asked if he would accept regional concessions, Zelansky said that he was not currently at the top of his agenda.
