He repeated that he was ready to meet with the illegitimate president of the aggressor country of Russia Vladimir Putin anywhere, but not in the Russian Federation, and not in the Ukrainian capital, where he “did not call him.”
“I did not call him to Kyiv. I said – if he does not want to meet with me, then, of course, he will decide to invite me to Moscow. This is only to postpone this meeting. And I said that this is the same thing that I would invite him to Kyiv,” said the head of the Ukrainian state.
He indicated that a number of countries offer their sites for peace negotiations.
“He has a choice. Team [президента США Дональда] Trump, my team, European partners – including [президента Франции Эммануэля] Macron and other leaders and the Turkish president – all of us, all our teams offer a meeting in Turkey or in Saudi Arabia, in Qatar, in Europe as a whole – Austria, Switzerland …. And even if you want somewhere else, for example, in Kazakhstan, let it be there. We are ready, ”Zelensky said.
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the words of the president, said that Ukraine has gone into an “absolutely passive position” and supposedly refuses settlement, writes Interfax. None of the sites proposed by Kyiv is suitable for Moscow, he added.
“Ukrainians are poured with a large number of proposals, they call a huge number of countries. And first they did not at all on Kazakhstan, but on those countries that are absolutely unacceptable for us. For some reason it is still believed that Switzerland is a neutral country. Or Austria. They are no longer neutral countries for us,” TASS propagandists quoted Putin.
Context
On September 3, Putin said that he allegedly did not see the point in a meeting with Zelensky, but did not reject her. He said that about these negotiations his He asked Trump And “if Zelensky is ready, let him come to Moscow, such a meeting will take place.” The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Andrei Sibiga noted that the Kremlin puts forward “deliberately unacceptable proposals”, and emphasized that the meeting of Zelensky and Putin At least seven countries are ready to accept at least seven countries.
Zelensky replied that the Russian Federation “He does everything to delay” a similar meeting.
On September 5, the speaker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Georgy Tikhiy said that the proposal to conduct peace negotiations between Ukraine and the aggressor country in Moscow It cannot be considered serious, but it indicates that Russia begins to understand the importance of such a meeting.
