NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s former President Nursultan Nazarbayev says he is working to arrange a face-to-face meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, RFE/RL reported.
Speaking at a conference in the Kazakh capital, Nur-Sultan, on November 12, Nazarbayev said Zelenskiy had agreed to take part in such a meeting, while Putin had been informed about it.
Russia-Ukraine relations have been tense since Moscow annexed Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014 and began supporting pro-Moscow separatists in the eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.
“If they [Putin and Zelenskiy] need a neutral site for talks, I have offered Kazakhstan,” Nazarbayev said.
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Source:: The Times of Central Asia
