The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky insisted on the need for a «meeting», «of any kind», with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, «to stop the war» in Ukraine, according to excerpts from a television interview broadcast by Interfax. «I believe that without this meeting it is impossible to fully understand what they (the Russians) are ready for in order to stop the war,» Zelensky said in the interview.
The Ukrainian president also said that it would not be possible at such a meeting to decide the future of the territories under Russian occupation.
The President of Ukraine, who recently stressed that «without negotiations the war will not stop», has repeatedly called for a summit with Putin, but today's request was particularly insistent, as the French News Agency notes.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, several rounds of talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations have taken place, but without any substantial result in terms of ending the hostilities.
