Ukraine’s Zelensky Says He Would Only Go to Moscow For Peace Talks ‘On a Missile’
- On Wednesday at the United Nations, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky proposed a trilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump; when asked about visiting Moscow, Zelensky jokingly replied he would only arrive "on a missile."
- Putin and Zelensky have not held a face-to-face meeting since December 2019, shortly after Zelensky's election, and the war on Ukraine has continued for more than four years without successful long-term diplomatic breakthroughs.
- The Trump Administration proposed a three-step ceasefire including a trilateral meeting and reopened Black Sea grain corridors, aiming to mitigate diesel costs that hit a $6-per-gallon average earlier this month.
- On Thursday, Putin envoy Kirill Dmitriev arrived in New York to meet with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, continuing the administration's diplomatic push on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
- Zelensky asked Trump to "engage" with Chinese President Jinping, noting his influence over Putin, while European allies simultaneously discuss potential NATO Article security guarantees for Ukraine as part of a lasting solution.
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Capannello of journalists around the Ukrainian president in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly
It is the reaction of the President of Ukraine to yesterday's Kremlin invitation for Volodymyr Zelensky to go to Moscow to negotiate with Vladimir Putin.
Zelensky's response has already been commented on by, among others, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
Volodymyr Zelensky sharply rejected his Russian counterpart’s invitation to travel to the Russian capital for talks. The Ukrainian president responded with a short but sharp phrase to a Russian journalist’s question about when he would travel to Moscow. While Zelensky was at the UN General Assembly in New York, Russian pro-government journalists repeatedly asked him questions. One of the journalists asked him in Russian: “Volodymyr Oleksandrovi…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected Russian leader Vladimir Putin's offer to hold talks in Moscow, saying he would travel to the Russian capital only “on a rocket,” DPA reports. When asked by a journalist from Russian state television, who repeatedly asked him on the sidelines of the annual general debate of the UN General Assembly when he would come to Moscow, Zelensky replied, using a profanity in Russian: “On a rocket, damn it!” (…
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