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Ukraine ready for talks on war but US, Europe must be there: Zelensky 6park.com
Ukraine is prepared to engage in negotiations to end its nearly three-year-old war with Russia, said President Volodymyr Zelensky, but he emphasised that the United States and Europe also have to take part in any talks. 6park.com
Mr Zelensky, who has long called for all Russian troops to leave Ukraine as a pre-condition, has in recent weeks spoken of the need for talks on moving the conflict to a “just” end. 6park.com
The Kremlin, whose forces have made gains for months on their push through eastern Ukraine, said this week that it was too early to consider four-way talks. 6park.com
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov again pointed to Mr Zelensky as an “illegitimate” leader because he had remained in power beyond the time of his mandate. 6park.com
“If people believe we must move to the diplomatic track, and I believe we are ready to move to the diplomatic track, there must be the US, Europe, Ukraine and Russia,” Mr Zelensky told British journalist Piers Morgan in an interview broadcast on Mr Morgan’s YouTube channel. 6park.com
Mr Zelensky said that if sitting opposite Russian President Vladimir Putin at the negotiating table “was the only set-up in which we can bring peace to the citizens of Ukraine... definitely, we will go for this set-up, for a meeting with these four participants”.