Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “in principle” never refused to attend a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Still, the Russian official explained that an agreement on “certain conditions” must be reached before any talks.

The representative, according to the news agency Russian ROCK, Noting that he had talked about this subject before, he emphasized that before this meeting between the heads of state, there was a need for a written document with its conditions.

“There is no detailed news on this subject. In principle, we have discussed this meeting of the President before. [Putin] He never denied it, but before such a meeting certain conditions must be agreed upon, especially in a written document.”

A face-to-face meeting between the presidents is one of Zelensky’s demands, who sees the meeting as one of the ways to end the war that started on February 24.

Negotiations at “stalemate”

On Tuesday 12, the Russian president assessed the talks between Ukraine and Russia as a “stalemate” and accused Kiev of allegedly deviating from the deals that took place in Istanbul.

In the same vein, the President of Turkey, reception tayyip Following the Istanbul talks on March 29, Erdogan believes that the talks that are making progress are the only ones taking place on Turkish soil.

With the war approaching 50 days, such statements and the hardening of the US position may signal that the conflict will continue even longer.