KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday renewed his offer to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, as delegations from both governments prepared to hold a third round of direct talks.
Russian forces, meanwhile, pounded three Ukrainian cities in nighttime attacks that officials said killed a child.
Putin has spurned Zelenskyy’s previous offers of a face-to-face meeting to end Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II. But the Ukrainian leader insists that lower-level delegations like the ones expected for talks in Istanbul on Wednesday don’t have the political heft to stop the fighting, when each side’s demands on ending Russia’s full-scale invasion, launched on Feb. 24, 2022, of its neighbor remain so far apart.
“Ukraine never wanted this war, and it is Russia that must end the war that it itself started,” Zelenskyy said in a Telegram post.
Zelenskyy’s announcement late Monday that the negotiations would take place generated little hope that they would deliver any progress on ending the war. That is despite the Trump administration’s efforts to push forward peace efforts, which have stalled because Putin is reluctant to budge from his demands.
Source:AP News
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