Deputy Director of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, Igor Zhovkva, announced that Kyiv has approached German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to help organize a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky.
“The only serious negotiations that can be conducted with the Russians will be possible at the presidential level, and my president is ready for this. International partners should help us organize such a meeting,” Zhovkva told Bloomberg.
He pointed out that “there was a conversation with the German chancellor to organize such a meeting.”
The deputy head of Zelensky’s office said, “Kyiv needs security guarantees from the United States, Britain and Germany,” noting that guarantees from “Russia alone are not enough.”
Russia and Ukraine previously held three rounds of negotiations. During the second round, the two parties reached an understanding regarding the provision of joint humanitarian corridors to evacuate citizens and deliver foodstuffs and medicines, but the humanitarian corridors did not fully function.
In it, the deputy head of Zelensky’s office said that 25 buses and 6,000 private cars left Sumy along the corridor.
Ukrainian President’s Office: Zelensky is ready for direct interlocutor with Putin
