Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has offered to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for their first talks, calling for Western leaders to mediate.
“Now I want to address the Russian President Vladimir Putin. We need to talk? We do. Let’s do it,” Zelenskiy said in a video address.
The former comic actor who was elected with a landslide in April’s presidential polls called for a meeting with the Russian strongman that would involve US President Donald Trump and other Western leaders.
He proposed discussing Russian-annexed Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine where Ukrainian forces are battling Russian-backed separatists.
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Source: Gulf times
