“With what will he go there? It seems to me that such a trip means only one thing – the desire to close the dirt on himself personally. The dirt that Putin and the Russian special services have against him. I do not want to say what he is, although I know something,” – he said.
The ex-prosecutor general stressed that “it is dangerous to let the president of Ukraine go there in such a state one on one.”
Lutsenko does not exclude that after talking with Putin, Zelensky will return and say: “Look, 175 thousand troops will not cross the border, but we need to hold a referendum and recognize the autonomous status of terrorist” republics “, I brought you peace, no one will die.”
“How can this be stopped? This is the path to the death of the state, which means to the death of each of its faithful citizens,” said the former prosecutor general.
Putin and Zelensky met in person only once – in December 2019 in Paris at the summit of the leaders of the countries of the Normandy format, within the framework of which they are looking for a solution to the conflict in Donbass.
On April 20, 2021, Zelensky invited Putin to meet “anywhere in Donbass where there is a war”… Putin answered Two days later and offered to meet in Moscow. The head of the Kremlin said he was ready to negotiate bilateral relations. To “discuss the problems of Donbass,” the Ukrainian leadership should meet with the leaders of the “LPR” and “DPR”, and “only then discuss them with representatives of third countries,” he said.
Representatives of the Ukrainian delegation in tripartite contact group on the settlement of the conflict in Donbass believe that the President of Ukraine you shouldn’t go to Moscow for negotiations… To Kiev inviting Putin is incorrect, said the head of the President’s Office Andriy Yermak.
Zelensky said that he “cares not about the venue, but about the content of the meeting”.
On May 21, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that Zelensky will not meet with Putin, if at this meeting there will be no topics of the occupied Crimea and Donbass.
On June 30, Putin said that so far sees no point in meeting with Zelensky, since “the key issues of the life of Ukraine are resolved not in Kiev, but in Washington, partly in Berlin and Paris.”
Zelensky, responding to Putin’s statement, called the words of the head of the Kremlin “a propaganda mantra that designed for domestic consumers in Russia itself “.
On September 5, Kuleba said that the Ukrainian side “is not hiding” from the meeting between Zelensky and Putin and is ready for it, but “it seems that the Russian side constantly finds excusesto avoid such a meeting. “
Zelensky on September 10 stated that hopes for a substantive meeting with Putin, the result of which will be an exchange of persons held.
On December 14, Kuleba explained that active negotiations on a possible meeting between Putin and Zelensky are not underway.
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