{"id":65727,"date":"2026-05-11T05:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/65727\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T05:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:38:13","slug":"putin-names-condition-for-meeting-with-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/65727\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Names Condition for Meeting with Zelensky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamtimes.com\/en\/news\/1279484\/putin-names-condition-for-meeting-with-zelensky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/n01279484-b.jpg\" alt=\"Putin Names Condition for Meeting with Zelensky\" title=\"Putin Names Condition for Meeting with Zelensky\" class=\"img-responsive\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Islam Times &#8211; Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky could take place \u201canywhere\u201d, including in a third country, but only after a final long-term peace agreement is fully prepared and ready for signing.\u201cThe Ukrainian side and Mr. Zelensky, they are ready to have a personal meeting&#8230; We have never refused,\u201d Putin said during a press conference after Victory Day celebrations on May 9.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can meet in the third country as well, but only after there is an ultimate agreement regarding a peace deal that must be a long-term deal,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that the meeting should be the \u201cfinal thing\u201d, the signing ceremony, and not turn into negotiations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recalling the Minsk Accords experience, Putin noted, \u201cWe can speak hours, day and night and it would yield no results. We need specialists to take care of that&#8230; then we can meet, we can sign.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the same May 9 briefing, Putin declared that the Ukraine conflict \u201cis heading towards the end&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>These remarks came one day after US President Donald Trump expressed hope that the ceasefire declared by Moscow on May 8 could lead to the fighting wrapping up soon.<\/p>\n<p>Last December, Putin reiterated that Russia seeks a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict provided its root causes are eliminated.&#13;\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times &#8211; Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[5653,9433,4860,5651,38547,21184,27032,19102,38546,3031,38550,4940,38551,16866,4675,38548,11911,7594,19290,13572,38545,38549,1330,13998,38552,349,334,19494,11630,38553,35157,27953,13567,8656,736,8649,31722,14214,328,17129,3221,395],"class_list":{"0":"post-65727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vladimir-putin","8":"tag-a","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-agreement","11":"tag-and","12":"tag-anywhere","13":"tag-but","14":"tag-condition","15":"tag-could","16":"tag-counterpart","17":"tag-country","18":"tag-final","19":"tag-for","20":"tag-fully","21":"tag-his","22":"tag-in","23":"tag-including","24":"tag-is","25":"tag-islam","26":"tag-long","27":"tag-meeting","28":"tag-names","29":"tag-only","30":"tag-peace","31":"tag-place","32":"tag-prepared","33":"tag-president","34":"tag-putin","35":"tag-ready","36":"tag-russian","37":"tag-signing","38":"tag-stated","39":"tag-take","40":"tag-term","41":"tag-that","42":"tag-third","43":"tag-times","44":"tag-ukrainian","45":"tag-vladimir","46":"tag-vladimir-putin","47":"tag-volodymyr","48":"tag-with","49":"tag-zelensky"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116554334790036880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}