{"id":162370,"date":"2025-06-06T07:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162370\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T07:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:35:09","slug":"russias-opposition-talking-with-ukraine-behind-the-scenes-top-dissident-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162370\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s opposition talking with Ukraine behind the scenes, top dissident says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe would like to take it to the highest level,\u201d he added, in a seeming reference<\/a> to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n

Kara-Murza made the remarks after addressing members of the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday together with Yulia Navalnaya,<\/a> the widow of former Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison last year. Navalny\u2019s team claims<\/a> he was murdered on Putin\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n

Ilya Yashin, another Russian opposition politician<\/a> who took part in Thursday\u2019s discussion in Brussels, said the EU could mediate between Russia\u2019s democratic movement and Ukraine\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to start this dialogue with Ukraine,\u201d Yashin said, claiming that Zelenskyy had expressed openness to talking with them. \u201cWe are not enemies to Ukraine \u2026 and want to sustain its independence,\u201d Yashin added.<\/p>\n

POLITICO has contacted the Ukrainian foreign ministry for comment.<\/p>\n

Splits between Ukrainians and the Russian opposition fall largely along the lines of responsibility toward the war. Many in Ukraine hold the Russian people responsible for Moscow\u2019s aggression, while dissidents have been trying to push that it is Putin\u2019s war, with average Russians as much victims<\/a> as Ukrainians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe would like to take it to the highest level,\u201d he added, in a seeming reference to Ukrainian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[67654,714,660,332,9322,21387,657,19655,49,333,2601,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-162370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-alexei-navalny","9":"tag-joe-biden","10":"tag-kremlin","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-russian-politics","13":"tag-state-of-the-union","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-ukrainian-politics","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-vladimir-putin","18":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","19":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114635271273403881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}