The meeting between Vladimir Putin and Zelenski could take place in a neighboring country with Romania
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Direct peace negotiations between presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodimir Zelenski, whose training was announced on Monday by the White House, could take place in Hungary, a high -ranking source of the US Presidential Administration told Reuters..
The source did not reveal other details, only adding that the Russian authorities have not yet officially announced that they agree with such a proposal, reports the jellyfish.
US President Donald Trump has announced after Monday's discussions at the White House with Volodimir Zelenski and several European leaders, the beginning of preparations for a personal meeting between the leader of Ukraine and that of Russia.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who participated in the discussions at the White House, said a meeting between Putin and Zelenski should take place in the next two weeks.
A meeting between Putin and Zelenski, expected by the end of the month
“We do not know if the Russian president will have the courage to participate in such a summit. There is a need for persuasion,” said Merz, who was part of the delegation of European leaders who went to Washington on Monday to give you Ukrainian president Volodimir Zelenski.
During a break of the meeting, “the US president spoke on the phone with the Russian president and agreed that a meeting will take place between Russian president and Ukrainian president in the next two weeks,” Merz told reporters at a press conference.
Also, Trump has agreed to launch a new invitation for a tripartite meeting afterwards, so that negotiations could “really start”.
French President Emmanuel Macron, who pleaded for a European leader to be present at the planned meeting, suggested that she would take place in Geneva.
“It will be a neutral country, and therefore maybe Switzerland. I plead for Geneva or another country. The last time there were bilateral discussions, they took place in Istanbul,” he reminded in comments for French television.
Hungarian prime minister said his country would receive Vladimir Putin
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is in favor of continuing cooperation between EU and Russia and against military aid granted to Ukraine. After the beginning of the war in February 2022, Orban visited Moscow and met Putin, also visited Kiev and had discussions with Zelenski.
In June this year Orban said that Hungary would receive Vladimir Putin “with all the honors”, despite the arrest warrant on his behalf, issued by the International Criminal Court (CPI).
Orban's comments came less than a month after the Budapest Parliament adopted a law on the withdrawal of the country from the CPI. As a signatory country, Hungary would have been obliged to arrest the Kremlin leader by virtue of the mandate issued by the CPI on his behalf in March 2023, for war crimes.
At the beginning of April, Hungary ignored the arrest warrant issued by the CPI on behalf of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom Orban visited in Budapest.
