Putin: “If Zelenski is prepared, come to Moscow and this meeting will take place.” How the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs responds to

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in Beijing on Wednesday that the president of Ukraine Volodimir Zelenski should come to Moscow if the meeting is well prepared. He says that if the negotiations do not give results, Russia will continue to pursue its goals by military means, Reuters and EFE agencies, taken over by Agerpres, record.

“There is a certain light at the end of the tunnel,” with the help of the mediation of President Trump, Putin said at a press conference, at the end of his visit to China. “We will see how the situation evolves. If not, we will have to solve our problems by military means,” added the Russian president.

Putin invoke common sense

He claimed that “all the groups of the Russian armed forces are on the offensive” on all sectors of the Ukrainian front, while the situation of the Ukrainian army is “critical”, as it has almost no staff reserves and most of its brigades have less than half of the necessary fighting.

About a possible meeting with the Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski, insistently requested by the latter, Putin said he was always open to such a meeting, confirming that Trump also requested it, but repeated the position of Moscow that such a meeting must be well prepared to give results.

“We have never excluded the possibility of such a meeting. But it makes sense? We will see!”, The Kremlin leader said. “If Zelenski is prepared, come to Moscow and this meeting will take place,” he added.

For now, Russia is ready to raise its level of representation to discussions with Ukraine, it continued Putin, without detailing, but Moscow has previously transmitted that it must first make enough progress in lower levels before a possible Putin-Zenski summit.

Asked about the statement of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who described as “one of the worst war criminals of our time”, Putin replied that he sees in this statement an unsuccessful attempt of the West of not recognizing his responsibility for the “tragedy” through which Ukraine passes, reminding here the “state”, with the “state”, Viktor Ianukovici.

“If common sense will prevail, an acceptable agreement for this conflict can be reached,” Putin said. He stressed that he sees from the administration of President Trump “a sincere desire to find a solution”, but denied that he would have discussed with him at their summit on August 15 in Alaska about security guarantees for Ukraine, but wanted to add that such guarantees cannot be decided “on account”.

Zelenski: “Russia rejects any attempt to end the war”

The Foreign Minister of Ukraine Andrii Sîbiha said that President Zelenski is prepared for a meeting with Putin, but this should take place on neutral ground, not in Moscow, which is “an inacceptable proposal”

At this time, at least seven countries are ready to host a meeting between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia to put an end to the war. Austria, Holy See, Switzerland, Turkey and three Gulf states. These are serious proposals, and President Zelenski is ready for such a meeting at any time. However, Putin continues to play with everyone, making unacceptable proposals deliberately. Only an increased pressure can force Russia to take the peace process at last, ”said Sîbiha.

For the time being, Volodimir Zelenski has not explicitly responded to the invitation for discussions with Putin in Moscow, but at the beginning of his European tour that at first asked Wednesday to European allies to intensify the economic pressure on Russia who would not have any intention to conclude peace, which proved by recent attacks, supported by hundreds of drones.

“Only because of insufficient pressure, especially on Russia's war economy, this continuous aggression,” Zelenski wrote on Telegram shortly before arrival in Denmark, “where he will meet with leaders from North Europe and the Baltic countries.

“We will discuss in the coming days with our partners about the need for strong pressure measures,” Zelenski said.

In a press conference subsequently held in Copenhagen, the Ukrainian president asked for reinforcements for the anti-aircraft defense. “These are regular attacks, a few a week, and a clear signal that Russia rejects any attempt to end the war and that it wants to fight continued,” motivated Volodimir Zelenski.

Trump: “I have no message for Putin”

In a press conference held at the White House, before a meeting with Poland Poland Karol Nawrocki, US President Donald Trump said he has no message for Russian president, but awaits his decision on peace negotiations.

“I have no message for President Putin, he knows what my position is. He will make a decision in one direction or another, and depending on it, I will be satisfied or dissatisfied, and if we are not satisfied, then something will happen,” Trump said.

“I will talk to him in the coming days and I will know exactly what is happening,” added the US president. Later, the White House said that Trump referred to a discussion to have with the President of Ukraine Volodimir Zelenski.

Blocking after Alaska summit

While Russia is primarily concerned about territorial issues, Kiev and its European allies are concerned about security guarantees for Ukraine, so the positions of the two camps remain very distant.

Zelenski rejects any transfer of territories to Russia, which on its side rejects any troops from NATO countries as a security guarantee for Ukraine, and the latter European allies still assure all the support if it continues the war and insists on carrying out peace troops in Ukraine, although Russia is opposed.

At the Alaska Summit, Putin asked Reuters, according to Ukraine to completely retreat from Donetk and Lugansk provinces and, instead, Russia to freeze the rest of the front line, but the Kremlin leader would have become more flexible than the idea of ​​security guarantees offered by Ukraine by Western States, including the US.

But any discussion about Western security guarantees for Ukraine that does not take into account the position of Moscow will not lead anywhere, warned the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, according to which an arrangement for security guarantees offered to Ukraine should involve permanent member states in the UN Security Council, the USA, Turkey, but by no means exclusively among NATO members or Ukraine supporters. Such guarantees must also take into account the interests of Moscow, who wants Ukraine to be a neutral country and maintain its status without nuclear weapons, the head of Russian diplomacy added.