Are you guys somehow trying to walltext this instead of talking about the meeting in Turkiya? Aparently, there may be some short of possibility of Putin and Zelensky actually meeting in Turkiya.
Zelensky said he would be there, the US and the "coalition of the willing" want them both there and ... well, there comes the problem: Putin may not be interested. But it is good that at least the US keeps on the accelerated course on Ruzzian diplomacy and have a good understanding why, after three years of war, the main obstacle for any peace remains ... Putin.
Zelensky said he would be there, the US and the "coalition of the willing" want them both there and ... well, there comes the problem: Putin may not be interested. But it is good that at least the US keeps on the accelerated course on Ruzzian diplomacy and have a good understanding why, after three years of war, the main obstacle for any peace remains ... Putin.
December 2, 2022 Putin open to Ukraine talks after Biden signals willingness if Russia serious about ending war
Feb 28, 2023 Russia Lays Out Peace Negotiation Terms That 'Cannot Be Ignored'
April 22, 2025 Putin says he’s open to direct talks with Ukraine as US pressure builds
Quote from: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4457159-putin-says-open-negotiating-us-ukraine-war-carlson-interview/
Putin told Carlson in an interview from Moscow that Russia has “never refused negotiations” and would welcome any efforts from Washington to discuss a peace agreement in Ukraine.
“We hear all the time, ‘Is Russia ready?’ Yes,” Putin said in the interview that aired Thursday. “We have not refused. It was them who publicly refused.”
Putin has claimed before that he is open to negotiating an end to the war, including after Russian forces suffered massive losses in 2022 following Ukrainian counteroffensives.
But U.S. officials have expressed wariness at the claims because Russia still demands Ukraine not be included in the Western security alliance NATO and Moscow wants to hold the roughly 18 percent of territory Russian forces occupy in eastern Ukraine.
“We hear all the time, ‘Is Russia ready?’ Yes,” Putin said in the interview that aired Thursday. “We have not refused. It was them who publicly refused.”
Putin has claimed before that he is open to negotiating an end to the war, including after Russian forces suffered massive losses in 2022 following Ukrainian counteroffensives.
But U.S. officials have expressed wariness at the claims because Russia still demands Ukraine not be included in the Western security alliance NATO and Moscow wants to hold the roughly 18 percent of territory Russian forces occupy in eastern Ukraine.
Zelenskiy decree rules out Ukraine talks with Putin as 'impossible'
Quote from: Google Translate https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/6792022-44249
President of Ukraine V. ZELENSKY
September 30, 2022
Enacted by the Decree of the President of Ukraine
dated September 30, 2022
№ 679/2022
DECISION
of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
dated September 30, 2022
Regarding Ukraine’s actions in response to the Russian Federation’s attempt to annex the territories of our state, in order to guarantee the security of the Euro-Atlantic space, Ukraine, and restore its territorial integrity
Taking into account the results of the meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief’s Headquarters and having heard the members of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine decided:
1. To state the impossibility of holding negotiations with the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin.
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September 30, 2022
Enacted by the Decree of the President of Ukraine
dated September 30, 2022
№ 679/2022
DECISION
of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
dated September 30, 2022
Regarding Ukraine’s actions in response to the Russian Federation’s attempt to annex the territories of our state, in order to guarantee the security of the Euro-Atlantic space, Ukraine, and restore its territorial integrity
Taking into account the results of the meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief’s Headquarters and having heard the members of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine decided:
1. To state the impossibility of holding negotiations with the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin.
..
April 20, 2022 UK PM Johnson says Ukraine peace talks are doomed because of "crocodile" Putin
wonder what happened since then But honestly, Boris should've never been allowed to torpedo negotiation back in 2022. So however you want to sell these negotiations to your targeted audience, like amazing Z with his super intelligence and his super human EU friends with their wunderwaffe outwit Putin and returns to the same negotiation table that Z walked out on 3 years ago, is fine by me. Just force Z to the negotiation table and mass media can sell it however they want.