President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed he was “ready for talks” with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and said that “without talks, the war Russia is waging in Ukraine will not be stopped.”
“I have been ready for two years now and I believe that the war cannot be stopped without negotiations,” he said.
Zelenskiy defended the series of rounds of talks between Kiev and Moscow that followed Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine, calling them “very valuable.” “If there is only a 1% chance that the war will be stopped, we should take advantage of this,” he said.
Turkey will intensify its efforts to mediate between Moscow and Kiev; today she assured that Russia and Ukraine have made progress in the negotiations.
In view of the invasion of the Russian army into Ukraine to “destroy” the population, “we must use all formats, every chance to have the opportunity to agree, the opportunity to talk with Putin,” the Ukrainian leader added.
“But if these attempts fail, it will mean that (the conflict in Ukraine) is a third world war,” he warned.