Tense Talks Ahead: Will Putin and Zelensky Find Common Ground? Much Hostility Between Them
New Delhi (The Uttam Hindu): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held important talks with the US President and European leaders in Washington. Zelensky shared pictures of this meeting on the social media platform X. He said that this dialogue was an important step towards ending the war and ensuring the security of Ukraine and our people.
At the same time, US President Donald Trump says that first Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky should talk. Both the leaders should sit together and talk and then if necessary, he will also sit with both the leaders in the next meeting. In this way, Trump has proposed that Putin and Zelensky should meet once before the trilateral talks. He said that before agreeing on the ceasefire, both the countries should hold talks so that they can put forward their issues. In fact, the leaders of Europe also made a similar suggestion when they met Trump with Zelensky. Donald Trump said that I had a wonderful meeting with Vladimir Putin. Apart from this, there was a very good meeting with Zelensky as well. Now I think it would be better if these people meet once without me. I want to see what the two people discuss in that bilateral meeting. Trump said this in Mark Levin's radio show. He said that the relationship between Putin and Zelensky is very bad. Now I want to see what meeting they have between themselves if necessary. What comes out of their conversation.
Not only this, Trump said that if his meeting felt that I also needed to be present, then I will also participate. Zelensky had told reporters that he was ready to meet Vladimir Putin. However, Vladimir Putin has not said anything like this so far. At the same time, the Russian President had a tough stand in the meeting with Donald Trump in Alaska. He had laid down three conditions for a ceasefire or any agreement with Ukraine. He said that areas like Crimea and Donbass should be agreed to be merged with Russia and should also be recognized. Apart from this, Ukraine should accept that it will no longer talk about joining NATO. Third, Russian speakers in Ukraine should get cultural and political rights. If there is any problem with them, then Russia will be free to take action.