Vladimir Putin said he is ready to receive Volodymyr Zelensky for peace talks in Moscow, adding “there is a certain light at the end of the tunnel”. The Russian president said at a press conference in Beijing on Wednesday (September 3) that if common sense prevailed it was possible to agree an “acceptable option” for ending the conflict.<\/p>\n
Putin said: “It seems to me that there is a certain light at the end of the tunnel. Let\u2019s see how the situation develops. If not, then we will have to achieve our goal by military means.” Russia<\/a>‘s leader said he was ready to receive Mr Zelensky for talks in Moscow, but on condition the meeting was “well prepared”.<\/p>\n The remarks came after Russia<\/a> fired more than 500 drones and two dozen missiles at Ukraine<\/a> overnight, authorities said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Ukraine<\/a>\u2019s president and European leaders have been in talks aimed at boosting Ukrainian defences and reinvigorate so far unsuccessful US-led peace efforts.<\/p>\n Mr Zelensky had not responded publicly to Putin’s remarks at the time of writing. He did say earlier that the overnight attacks were “demonstrative”.<\/p>\n He wrote on the Telegram messaging app: “Putin is demonstrating his impunity. Only due to the lack of sufficient pressure, primarily on the war economy, does Russia<\/a> continue this aggression.”<\/p>\n In his daily video address on Tuesday evening, Mr Zelensky said the number of Russian drone attacks was growing, including in broad daylight. He reported another build-up of Russian forces in some sectors of the front.<\/p>\n Ukraine<\/a>‘s leader said that betrayed “an open disregard by Russia<\/a> for everything the world is doing to stop this war”.<\/p>\n Putin was in China to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping<\/a>, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n Pyongyang has sent troops and ammunition to Russia<\/a>, while China and India have bought Russian oil, helping its war economy.<\/p>\n US President Donald Trump<\/a> Trump today suggested he will soon have an answer as to whether Putin and Mr Zelensky will hold talks.<\/p>\n He said: “I\u2019m having a conversation with him (Mr Zelensky) very shortly and I\u2019ll know pretty much what we\u2019re going to be doing.”<\/p>\n The president repeated that he thought bringing an end to the Russia<\/a>–Ukraine<\/a> conflict would be “much easier” than it has proven to be.<\/p>\n He said the bloodshed in eastern Europe has to end and expressed confidence that he will be able to bring the conflict to a close.<\/p>\n Mr Trump said: “Not since the Second World War has there been anything even close to this.” He added: “They’re not soldiers from my country. This is my country. But I have a power to end things.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin said he is ready to receive Volodymyr Zelensky for peace talks in Moscow, adding “there is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,7661,45468,333,57558,57557,136791,658,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-395812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","10":"tag-russia-ukraine-war-latest","11":"tag-vladimir-putin","12":"tag-vladimir-putin-latest","13":"tag-vladimir-putin-news","14":"tag-vladimir-putin-update","15":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky","16":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115143039059864603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395812","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=395812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}