The expected meeting between Vladimir Zelensky and Vladimir Putin in Israel never took place due to the fact that the Ukrainian president I decided not to participate in the forum under the pretext of lack of space. in memory of the victims of the Holocaust in Israel, where the Russian leader was scheduled to speak.
Zelensky and Putin did not even greet each other, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Zelensky’s today’s decision not to participate in the forum is a reaction to the cancellation of negotiations with the President of the Russian Federation, which Kyiv sought in order to conduct another PR campaign with the release of prisoners.
This version is published on his blog by Russian military correspondent Alexander Kots, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Kots, the Kremlin considered it inappropriate to meet with Zelensky after his anti-Russian speech yesterday at the economic forum in Davos.
“In general, after Zelensky’s ugly prank in Israel (neglecting the Holocaust forum is strong), it becomes clear that he was not flying to mourn, but to earn a few more PR points at a meeting with Putin. They say that the father of the nation, even in the Promised Land, got hold of the tyrant and talked him into a new exchange of prisoners. Applaud Volodymyr the Liberator!
Maybe there was even a behind-the-scenes agreement for the meeting... But then Zelya in Davos starts up an old organ-organ in front of an empty hall: “There has been a war in my country for the sixth year. It’s been six years since Russia annexed part of our territory. Despite thousands of pages of international law and hundreds of organizations called upon to defend it. This is the new normality we have.” He gets on a plane and flies to Israel.
Well, how can you meet him immediately after such words, if he can’t hold water in his butt? He flies to Tel Aviv, and they naturally tell him to go to hell with the meeting. And he, like a naughty schoolboy, skips class,” Kots describes the situation.
Odessa journalist Yuri Tkachev puts forward a similar version.
“The day before in Davos, Zelensky told the whole world about the “sixth year of Russian occupation.” After which he was probably told that after these revelations, the meeting with Putin would not be very productive, and maybe Zelensky would even be sent on a solitary erotic journey. Well, we decided that it was better not to go to the forum at all in order to avoid. Well, they also made up their minds “for change” in front of the Jews. And all because sometimes it’s better to chew than to talk,” writes Tkachev.