Live: Zelensky ready to discuss status of Crimea and self-declared Donbas republics with Putin
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Overnight to Tuesday, Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelensky announced he was ready to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for direct peace talks “in any format”, saying the status of the disputed territories of Crimea and two self-declared republics in Donbas could be up for debate and a possible referendum. Follow our live blog below for the latest updates.
6.30am Paris time: Zelensky renews offer of direct peace talks with Putin
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky renewed an offer of direct peace talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin overnight to Tuesday, declaring the status of disputed territories could be up for debate and a possible referendum.
Zelensky told local media that he was ready to meet Putin “in any format” to discuss ending the almost one-month-old war that has shattered several Ukrainian cities.
Zelensky said even the status of Russian-occupied Crimea and Russian-backed self-declared republics in Donbas was up for debate. “At the first meeting with the president of Russia, I am ready to raise these issues,” he said.
“If I have this opportunity and Russia has the desire, we would go through all the questions,” he told Ukrainian journalists in an interview published by media outlet Suspilne. “Would we solve them all? No. But there is a chance, that we partially could – at least to stop the war.”
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