{"id":23021,"date":"2025-02-05T07:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T04:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/zelensky-says-he-is-ready-for-direct-talks-with-putin\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T07:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T04:05:12","slug":"zelensky-says-he-is-ready-for-direct-talks-with-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/zelensky-says-he-is-ready-for-direct-talks-with-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky says he is ready for direct talks with Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5308317.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview posted Tuesday that he would agree to direct talks with Russia&#8217;s Vladimir Putin to end almost three years of war, France 24 reported.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came amid high anticipation of talks to begin, with Donald Trump &#8212; who has pledged to end the fighting &#8212; back in the White House as the third anniversary of Moscow&#8217;s special military operation in Ukraine approaches. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asked how he would feel if he sat opposite Putin at a negotiating table, Zelensky said, &#8220;If that is the only set-up in which we can bring peace to the citizens of Ukraine and not lose people, definitely we will go for this set-up,&#8221; adding that he would be with &#8220;four participants.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He did not specify who the participants were.<\/p>\n<p>Putin last week said Moscow would hold talks with Ukraine but ruled out speaking directly to Zelensky.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MP\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/227936\/Zelensky-says-he-is-ready-for-direct-talks-with-Putin\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview posted Tuesday that he would agree to direct talks with Russia&#8217;s Vladimir Putin to end almost three years of war, France 24 reported. His comments came amid high anticipation of talks to begin, with Donald Trump &#8212; who has pledged to end the fighting &#8212; back in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}