Putin stopped talking to Zelensky
Dmitry Gordon, whose name has been flashing in the media in recent days, was honored to ask the first question at the press conference of Vladimir Zelensky on the anniversary of his presidency.
Zelensky could not resist making a joke at Gordon’s expense, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Our special agent, as far as I was told,” Zelensky said.
Gordon, in turn, asked Zelensky whether he realized the futility of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin: “Do you understand that Putin will never give up Donbass on Ukrainian terms, which means there is no point in meeting with him at all?”
Zelensky joked again that he didn’t understand whether it was a question or a statement, and began talking about prisoner exchanges and the “strengthening” of the negotiating group in Minsk.
“I have now had no meetings with him in any format, no calls. Now all countries are busy with their own country because of the coronavirus,” Zelensky said.
However, he expressed hope that the meeting in the Normandy format should take place after the end of the pandemic.
“As for the President of Russia, we will not do anything about this, we must talk to him, we must negotiate... I am ready for any format that can bring us closer to the end of the war and the return of our territory and people,” Zelensky continued.
At the end of April, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that The Kremlin does not see the need to hold another summit in the Normandy format, since Ukraine has still not fulfilled the agreements reached at the last meeting in Paris.
“We will never agree on a new summit until all the decisions that were made in Paris are honestly, fully and conscientiously implemented, and there is no other way to implement them except to behave correctly in the Contact Group and reach agreements with Donetsk and Lugansk,” the minister said.
At the same time, Lavrov emphasized that Ukrainian politicians do not have the right to refer to the supposed non-binding nature of the implementation of the Minsk agreements on Donbass.
“The Minsk agreements were approved by the UN Security Council, and thereby gained international legal force. As such, they must be implemented,” the minister said.
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