He sowed further doubt Friday, claiming that Zelenskyy was the one not willing to negotiate by refusing to rule out joining NATO or concede to the Kremlin\u2019s maximalist territorial demands.<\/p>\n
\u201cPutin is ready to meet with Zelenskyy when the agenda is ready for a summit, and this agenda is not ready at all,\u201d Lavrov\u00a0told U.S. channel NBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cZelenskyy said no to everything. \u2026 How can we meet with a person who is pretending to be a leader?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n While U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said earlier this week the Russian ruler had agreed to a face-to-face meeting, touting his supposed openness to talks as a breakthrough, European diplomats and leaders have voiced skepticism that Moscow is really interested in ending the war and willing to negotiate in good faith.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are forgetting that Russia has not made one single concession<\/a>, and they are the ones who are the aggressor here,\u201d the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n Zelenskyy accused Moscow on Friday of dragging out peace talks in a bid to hold off punishing American sanctions, which Trump has threatened to impose on Russia and its trading partners if the Kremlin does not participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He sowed further doubt Friday, claiming that Zelenskyy was the one not willing to negotiate by refusing to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5719,32,34,2596,660,43,2820,2598,12,332,10243,1771,49,333,2601,771,335,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-365354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-cities","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-kaja-kallas","12":"tag-kremlin","13":"tag-macron","14":"tag-marco-rubio","15":"tag-missiles","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-sergey-lavrov","19":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-vladimir-putin","22":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","23":"tag-war","24":"tag-war-in-ukraine","25":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115073986464890099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365354","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=365354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}