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Zelensky says failure of US envoys to visit Kyiv is 'disrespectful'
BBC News ^ | April 21, 2026 | Laura Gozzi

Posted on 04/21/2026 2:38:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he considered visits by US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow but not Kyiv "disrespectful".

The pair visited the Russian capital late last year as ceasefire talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine gained pace, and again in January.

Witkoff, who has been to Moscow eight times, met Vladimir Putin on many occasions.

Neither he nor Kushner, however, has ever visited Kyiv in an official capacity.

"It's disrespectful [for them] to come to Moscow and not Kyiv, it's just disrespectful," Zelensky said in an interview with a Ukrainian outlet.

"I understand we have complex logistics... If they don't want to, we can meet in other countries," he added.

Witkoff, a former real estate magnate, is Donald Trump's special envoy and Kushner is the US president's son-in-law.

Earlier in April Zelensky said the two were planning on visiting Ukraine, but that trip never materialised amid the US-Israel war with Iran.

The last trilateral summit between Russia, the US and Ukraine was in mid-February.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Ukraine
KEYWORDS: elpresidente4life; hedefinesdisrespect; pianoplayerunzipsit; pipsqueak; president4life

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1 posted on 04/21/2026 2:38:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Who does he think he is? Queen Elizabeth?

Will someone please tell this jerk to SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN


2 posted on 04/21/2026 2:41:06 PM PDT by Veto! ((Trump is Superman))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Beggars who play pianos with their penis should STFU.


3 posted on 04/21/2026 2:42:06 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( Neocons in love with the Ukraine War hate how long the Iran War is taking..........)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Isn’t he the guy who met with Trump in a bowling shirt?


4 posted on 04/21/2026 2:43:58 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: MinorityRepublican

That asswipe’ can piss off for all I care. The EU can grow some balls and do something for a change. He’s as big a wanker as the Aussies leftists government. Obviously IMO.


5 posted on 04/21/2026 2:45:29 PM PDT by Equine1952 (MM1SS SASOB)
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To: MinorityRepublican

President for LIFE. No elections allowed. World’s newest Billionaire.


6 posted on 04/21/2026 2:46:58 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: Equine1952

The EU was busy cowering under their beds waiting for Russians to roll tanks through Poland.


7 posted on 04/21/2026 2:47:28 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: wildcard_redneck

Thanks for reminding me of his greatest accomplishment.

Hardly any world leader can play piano like that.


8 posted on 04/21/2026 2:52:03 PM PDT by Veto! ((Trump is Superman))
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Envoys?

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are real estate agents.

Zelensky made land and mineral rights deals with the Crown, not the U.S.

Let the Crown send real estate agents to Ukraine.

9 posted on 04/21/2026 2:57:11 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Fledermaus

We/US has shed blood all over EUROPE because they can’t take care of themselves. The Poles are about the only bright spot, and not just the EU, Australia has adopted a head in their anus posture as well. It’s enough to make you weep as you lock and load.


10 posted on 04/21/2026 2:57:46 PM PDT by Equine1952 (MM1SS SASOB)
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To: MinorityRepublican

That wormy pos has been disrespectful more than a few times. It’s not our war. He done all he can to drag it out. He’s out of power soon after the war ends. He might have to take all the money he’s made off the war and live in exile.


11 posted on 04/21/2026 2:58:14 PM PDT by boycott
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Zzzzellinskyyy is getting the respect he deserves. 100%!


12 posted on 04/21/2026 2:59:38 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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Neither Z nor Putin have the faintest desire to end this meat grinder. This will go on until both sides are so exhausted that they have no choice but to settle.


13 posted on 04/21/2026 3:00:19 PM PDT by Deo volente ("Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.” -Niccolò Machiavelli)
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To: fhayek

It was a bowling UNIFORM shirt!


14 posted on 04/21/2026 3:00:42 PM PDT by MortMan (How deep do you have to plant birdseed?)
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To: Veto!

>> Hardly any world leader can play piano like that.

😂😂😂


15 posted on 04/21/2026 3:00:43 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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16 posted on 04/21/2026 3:10:39 PM PDT by McGruff
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That little runt needs his ears boxed, but good.

17 posted on 04/21/2026 3:12:16 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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We gots bettah thangs to do, weenie wagger? There is big doings off and in Iran— haven’t you heard you little grifting twerp. Be glad we have checkmated the aging East German KGB clown and his thugs. You, after all have several places out of country you have purchased and haul butt to hide-out.


18 posted on 04/21/2026 3:13:40 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s because the government in Kiev is an Obama-installed, fake, globalist government.


19 posted on 04/21/2026 3:16:49 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Visting Moscow however, is OK.


20 posted on 04/21/2026 3:18:39 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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