Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that in order for the meeting of Vladimir Zelensky and Vladimir Putin to take place, fundamental agreements are first needed.. His words during the last briefing are quoted by Russian media.

" No one needs a meeting for the sake of a meeting. In order for such a meeting to take place and for the very idea of \u200b\u200bsuch a meeting to be on the agenda, work needs to be done and the foundation for those agreements that can be fixed at the highest level needs to be built.. About this (the meeting between Putin and Zelensky - ed.. ) is not yet said,"

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Kyiv and Moscow suspended peace talks on May 17. Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, explains that now Russia does not need real negotiations and the signing of some kind of stable document, but only an operational pause to restore troops and build up combat readiness.

Some countries in the West agree that it will be possible to sit down at the negotiating table with the Russian Federation only after the complete defeat of the invaders on the battlefield. For example, Liz Truss, Prime Minister of Britain, thinks so.. At the same time, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is in favor of holding talks with Putin "