{"id":949131,"date":"2026-05-09T21:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949131\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:43:17","slug":"putin-says-he-thinks-war-in-ukraine-coming-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949131\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin says he thinks war in Ukraine &#8216;coming to an end&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he thought the Ukraine war was coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;I think that the matter is coming to an end,&#8221; Putin told reporters on Saturday of the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">He also said he is ready to meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but only to finalise a peace agreement.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;It is possible to meet in a third country, but only if final agreements have been reached on a peace treaty,&#8221; Putin said, arguing that such an agreement must be &#8220;designed for a long-term historical perspective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">The Financial Times reported on Thursday that European Union leaders were preparing for potential talks.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Asked if he was willing to engage in talks with the Europeans, he said the preferable figure for him was former Germany&#8217;s Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he thought the Ukraine war was coming to an end. &#8220;I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-949131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116546804759593376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949131","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=949131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}