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The president said he would attend the G20 summit in Miami if the Kremlin chief were present.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is ready to personally meet the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin during the G20 summit in Miami. The meeting could take place if the Kremlin head attends the summit. This is reported by Glavkom, citing DW.
According to Zelensky, if Putin decides to participate in the G20 summit, he will also go to Miami. "We have to be there. We have to meet, talk, and make a decision," the Ukrainian president said.
Zelensky emphasized that in a potential meeting, the main thing should be the concrete results of the talks, not statements by the sides. "It's not about words. What I tell him or what he wants to tell me — it doesn't matter. The results matter. That’s all," the head of state explained.
The G20 summit in Miami is scheduled for December 2026 year. The Kremlin has not announced whether Putin plans to personally participate in the meeting.
The last time the Kremlin leader personally attended a G20 summit was seven years ago. Meanwhile, in August Russia’s finance minister Anton Siluanov received an invitation from the United States to participate in a meeting of G20 countries in North Carolina, which drew criticism from European politicians.
Zelensky and Putin have not held personal talks since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022 year. Their only personal meeting took place 9 in December 2019 in Paris during the Normandy Format summit. Then Zelensky and Putin held a one-on-one conversation that lasted about 10–15 minutes.
As a reminder, at the end of August CIA Director John Brennan proposed organizing a trilateral summit involving Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin. According to Axios, he voiced this idea during a visit to Moscow. Ukraine had previously supported holding such a meeting, while Russia rejected it.
Later, the Russian dictator's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that a meeting of Zelensky, Trump, and Putin could allegedly take place only to fix already worked-out final agreements.
Earlier, the Kremlin repeatedly proposed meeting Zelensky with Putin in Moscow. The Ukrainian side rejected the Russian capital as a possible venue for negotiations. Zelensky also said the meeting should take place in a neutral Europe, naming Switzerland, Austria, and Turkey as acceptable options. At the same time, the head of state invited Putin to come to Kyiv if he is truly ready for a personal meeting.
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