{"id":317949,"date":"2025-08-04T19:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317949\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:41:13","slug":"putin-is-nearly-ready-to-meet-zelenskyy-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317949\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin is (nearly) ready to meet Zelenskyy \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy if the groundwork is done beforehand, the Kremlin announced Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to remind you that the president himself does not rule out holding such a meeting after the necessary work is done at the expert level and the necessary distance has been covered,\u201d\u00a0Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters.<\/p>\n

However, he added, that preparatory work \u201chas not yet been done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy called for a direct meeting with Putin last week after the Kremlin chief expressed<\/a> <\/strong>hope for further peace talks and said Russian troops were \u201cadvancing on the entire front line.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand who calls the shots in Russia, and thus Ukraine is once again offering to move beyond technical talks \u2014 not to exchange statements, but to actually meet at the level of leaders,\u201d Zelenskyy said in a post<\/a> on X on Aug. 1.<\/p>\n

Peskov\u2019s statements came ahead of the Friday expiry of U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s deadline to Russia to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine or face tariffs. <\/p>\n

Trump originally gave Russia a 50-day deadline, but shortened it to 10 days last week after expressing he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d with Putin. <\/p>\n

Trump also said his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, would visit Russia in the coming days. Peskov said \u201cwe are always happy to see Mr. Witkoff in Russia\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy if the groundwork is done…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5293,32,809,12,332,9322,7070,1772,657,49,333,2601,335,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-317949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-diplomacy","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-negotiations","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-russian-politics","14":"tag-steve-witkoff","15":"tag-u-s-politics","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-vladimir-putin","19":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","20":"tag-war-in-ukraine","21":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114972202334065622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317949","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=317949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}