Posted on 01/20/2023 12:11:16 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at an event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on Thursday that he is unsure if his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, is “alive” and does not know who within the Russian government he would have to speak to if he wanted to begin talks with Moscow.
The bizarre remark follows months of pressure on both sides of the Ukrainian war to come to the negotiating table, pressure largely ignored, and sometimes mocked, by both the Russian and Ukrainian governments. Zelensky and Putin last met in talks in 2019, which did nothing to resolve their ongoing conflict.
Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, “annexing” its Crimean peninsula. Putin’s government then proceeded to support a prolonged military engagement by rebel forces in the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine for years, finally announcing the “annexation” of that territory into Russia in September 2022.
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This punk needs to go.
Heroyam slava
If he bothered to use Google, he would find that Putin was in public 2 days ago, for the Siege of Leningrad memorial and meeting with WWII veterans.
Ukrainians deserve neither Puton nor this corrupt puppet.
There may be at least one grain of truth in what Zelensky is saying on this topic: I have always thought it was the USA that has been stopping any real negotiations between the two foes to occur.
American Money Bombs + American Made Propaganda delivered by the metric ton meant to obscure or exaggerate = Uncertainty for the Ukrainians on the ground.
Cocaine is a hellava drug.
“Putin was in public”
Which one ?
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