And there you have it - total destruction of Ukraine.
It’s totally appropriate for Zelenskyy to send his Defense Minister to head the delegation if Putin isn’t going to be there. This will actually be a higher level delegation than the one the Russians are sending.
Negotiating with Zelensky is pointless.
He doesn’t fund the war, doesn’t control communications or intel, doesn’t choose targets, he doesn’t have control over the most advanced western weapons
This is a Russia-West (and as Trump has shown us, particularly EU) proxy conflict over post-Soviet spheres of influence in Eastern Europe and the Black Sea, and a standard UK effort to blunt any powerful nations on the continent.
Zelensky is there to preside over the destruction of Ukraine.