Ukraine crisis: Zelensky open for talks with Putin in Israel

     

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he’s open for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Israel ,but only if there is a cease-fire in place.

     

Zelenskyy said Saturday he told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that he would be ready to meet Putin in Jerusalem. Bennett visited Moscow for a meeting with Putin and spoke repeatedly with Zelenskyy and the leaders of France and Germany as he sought to help mediate an end to the war.

      

Zelenskyy said Bennett informed him about his talks with Putin, adding that he can’t share details.

     

Putin has ignored numerous previous offers of talks from Zelenskyy.

      

Speaking at a news conference, Zelenskyy said the Russians could take the Ukrainian capital “only if they kill us all.

      

If that is their goal, let them come,” he said. “If they carry out carpet bombings and wipe off the historic memory of the entire region, the history of Kyivan Rus, the history of Europe, they could enter Kyiv but they will have to leave on that land alone, certainly without us.

     

Even if they bring a million Russians here, they can’t occupy Ukraine, he added.

     

Zelenskyy again deplored NATO’s refusal to declare a no-fly zone over Ukraine despite its repeated pleas. He said that Ukraine has sought for ways to procure air defense assets, but he wouldn’t mention any details.

      

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4 comments

    • With NATO standing by and watching as one country has warplanes and the other ones doesn’t then NATO is assisting in Putin’s genocide. Yeah NATO go ahead and follow the laws of NATO while the laws of humanity are being violated. Your choice, follow the laws of NATO or humanity. History won’t care if Ukraine was a member, all the children will ask, “Why didn’t NATO help?”

  1. Sorry to say this, but no talks will bring any decisive results. The only thing to bring a positive result is a defeat of mafia’s army … or maybe a near defeat.

    • If, and it’s a big if, putler agreed to meet Zel, that would signal that something very painful for Ukraine but not terminal, could be stitched up.
      If the nazi rodent again declines, then we are back in the territory of a defeat for putler or a palace coup.
      Either way, the west must step up its aid massively.

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