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The prospect of a personal meeting between President Volodymyr Zelensky and dictator Volodymyr Putin remains uncertain, because the Kremlin is not currently showing willingness to negotiate an end to the war at the leaders’ level. This was stated by political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko. The expert noted that Moscow is actually putting forward conditions that effectively force the Ukrainian president to travel to the Russian capital himself or to call the dictator. In the opinion of the political analyst, this indicates not a desire for negotiations but an attempt to place Zelensky in the position of a supplicant.
Fesenko expressed these assessments while commenting on the prospects for trilateral talks among Ukraine, the United States, and Russia. The political analyst believes that such Kremlin rhetoric does not anticipate a real discussion of specific terms for ending the war, but merely demonstrates an intent to humiliate the Ukrainian side.
"I don’t see how Zelensky and Putin could agree on anything at all. Two people who genuinely hate each other," noted political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko.
At the same time, the expert does not rule out that agreements could be reached at the level of negotiating delegations. According to him, the parties could discuss sectoral ceasefires or the cessation of hostilities along the front line. Fesenko stressed that this does not require organizing a personal meeting of the presidents or demanding them to sign joint documents, and he cited the example of the Korean War, whose end was accompanied precisely by ceasefire agreements without personal meetings of the leaders.
Turkey offered itself as a venue for talks
The question of a personal meeting between leaders has been raised repeatedly by Zelensky himself. Previously the president proposed meeting Putin in Turkey after talks with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul. Then Zelensky stressed that it would be the leaders’ meeting, not technical delegations, that would be decisive for the societies waiting for the end of the war, since Ankara could act as a full-fledged mediator between Kyiv, Moscow, and Washington.
Earlier, Informator reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated Putin’s reluctance to speak with Zelensky even by phone, insisting that the Ukrainian president would have to personally travel to Moscow if he wants a meeting. We also wrote that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed doubts about a quick peaceful settlement of the war in Ukraine, saying that there is currently no confidence in the possibility of resolving the conflict diplomatically.
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