Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zlensky was open, but only in the “final phase” of negotiations aimed at the end of the three -year conflict.
Putin also questioned Zlen’s power to sign a peace agreement and claimed that his five-year period technically ended according to martial rights, that Kyiv had rejected as unfounded and propaganda, AFP reported.
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“We must find a solution that would not only end the current conflict, but also create conditions that would prevent such situations from repeating similar situations,” Putin told foreign journalists, including AFP, in Saint Petersburg.
“I am ready to meet everyone, including Zelena. This is not a problem – if the Ukrainian state believes in particular to act to act, it can be zlenic,” said the Russian leader.
“We don’t care who negotiates, even if it’s the current head of the regime,” Putin said.
He added, however, that this would only happen in “the final phase, so that he did not sit there and infinitely divide things, but ended it.”
Interviews about the termination of a three -year conflict have stopped in recent weeks, while Putin pushed the maximumist requirements for the end of his offensive and at the same time refused to attend a personal meeting with greenish.
Kyiv accused Moscow of intentional sabotage of peaceful efforts to prolong the conflict.
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