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Zelensky bluntly rejects Putin’s invite to Moscow, ‘can't go the capital of a TERRORIST… come to Kyiv’
Zelensky rejects talks in Moscow due to ongoing Russian missile attacks, proposing Kyiv or neutral European locations instead, while international mediation efforts continue.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin's invitation to hold talks in Moscow, stating he cannot visit the capital of a terrorist while Ukraine faces daily missile attacks.
- Putin extended the Moscow invitation amid ongoing conflict, but Zelensky accused him of using the offer as a political maneuver to delay dialogue and manipulate the United States.
- Zelensky challenged Putin to visit the Ukrainian capital for talks, arguing that he cannot travel to Moscow while under attack, while Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha condemned Putin for dismissing peace negotiations offered by multiple countries willing to host discussions.
- After their August 15 meeting in Alaska, U.S. President Donald Trump announced efforts to arrange a trilateral summit including Russia and Ukraine, while German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said a direct meeting between Putin and Zelensky appeared unlikely.
- The refusal to meet on Moscow’s terms and ongoing Russian military offensives suggest peace talks remain distant, highlighting the war’s persistence and the challenges to diplomatic resolution.
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The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, rejected the invitation made to him by his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to conduct the peace talks between the two countries at war in Moscow, Russia. “I cannot go to Moscow when my country is under missile fire, under attacks every day. I cannot go to the capital of this terrorist. It is understandable and he understands it,” the Ukrainian president said in an interview given to American tel…
Zelensky also said that Putin should not be trusted and that he is playing games with the United States.
Zelensky invites Putin to talks in Kyiv, rejects Moscow meeting
Russian President Vladimir Putin can travel to Kyiv for talks on a peace settlement in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with ABC News on Friday, September 5. Earlier the same day, speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Putin again said the “best place” for negotiations on a peace settlement in Ukraine would be Moscow. He pledged that Zelensky would receive a “100 percent” security guarantee if …
Volodimir Zelenski offers the capital of Ukraine to meet Vladimir Putin after the Russian invitation to hold the meeting in the Russian capital. The Ukrainian president has explained the impossibility of holding such a summit in the Eurasian country. “I cannot go to Moscow when my country suffers missile attacks on a daily basis. I cannot go to the capital of this terrorist,” said Zelenski during an interview with ABC News. Putin “understands th…
Will there be a meeting of Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Selenskyy? The Russian president can only imagine a meeting in Moscow. Selenskyy refuses that. Instead, he invites the Kremlin chief to the Ukrainian capital.
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