Posted on 08/07/2025 7:42:15 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday confirmed he discussed a trilateral meeting to include Russian President Vladimir Putin, potentially as soon as next week, in a call with President Donald Trump one day prior.
Zelenskyy – who echoed comments issued by Trump on Wednesday and said the discussion was also held with European leaders – called on Putin to "be brave" and take the meeting.
"Yesterday, various potential formats for leader-level meetings to bring peace were also discussed – two bilateral and one trilateral," he said in a post on X. "Ukraine is not afraid of meetings and expects the same brave approach from the Russian side. It is time we ended the war."
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Well, that’s a pretty stupid thing to say unless you want talks to fail.
He does.
Trump needs a win here and if he can shut this war down it would go a long ways in raising his approval numbers.
Nothing like greasing the skids, eh.
A reasonable draft made public would enable public pressure to be exerted for its acceptance.
One day left to end the war!
All sides want peace. Tonight Putin will prove Russia believes this by murdering some children as they sleep.
Mexico has an embassy in Kyiv.
Mexico might have its people from the Kyiv and Moscow embassies craft a draft agreement that could be made public.
Both the Ukrainian and Russian people want the war to end.
The Swiss also have embassies in both countries.
What's he afraid of?
Brazil has an embassy in Kiev.
There would be diplomatic personnel in the embassies in Moscow and Kyiv that could craft a document in Russian (and probably Ukrainian too).
The American proposal from I suppose the Witkoff talks has already been splashed.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4333177/posts
Anyone who thinks that the Ukrainians will just bend over and accept whatever is dictated to them are not the adults and have not been paying attention to the last 3 1/2 years.
Elections will take place after the ceasefire.
With the territorial concessions as specified in the US proposal, the pro Russia candidates who were winning Ukraine elections pre 2014 . . . never will again, since those territorial concessions remove pro Russia votes from the Ukraine national total.
It would be like removing California from the US totals. No more Democrats.
Your insignificant Ukies are just pawns in the great game and they will do what they are told whether they like it or not. Such a backward and corrupt people who were stupid enough to allow the US to push them into war with Russia - something they never had any chance of winning anyway. Now they are just a rump state with everybody picking over the carcass.
Trump can’t undermine Ukraine by offering more than Ukraine has authorized.
A third party [Mexico, Brazil, Switzerland] is likely to be free to craft a draft agreement that might be more acceptable and that can be published to increase the pressure to accept.
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