Kyiv has proposed to Moscow a new round of peace talks next week, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday, after negotiations stalled in early June.
Two rounds of talks in Istanbul between Moscow and Kyiv failed to result in any progress towards a ceasefire, instead yielding large-scale prisoner exchanges and deals to return the bodies of killed soldiers.
“Security council secretary [Rustem] Umerov also reported that he had proposed the next meeting with the Russian side for next week,” Zelenskyy said in his evening address to the country.
“The momentum of the negotiations must be stepped up,” he added.
Zelenskyy reiterated his readiness to have a face-to-face meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. “A meeting at the leadership level is needed to truly ensure peace – lasting peace,” he said.
A “meeting at the leadership level” would be a meeting between Presidents Putin and Trump–because Zelensky is just a sock puppet. But it does not seem like Trump really has a handle on anything happening in the world, anyway.
What is the angle that Zelensky is trying to work here? Is this merely a reflection of the fact that we understand our proxy army is collapsing while Russian momentum is increasing?
Condoleeza Rice says that Trump’s total betrayal of MAGA is the turning point. She also thought the Iraq war was a great idea, so take that with a grain of salt.