{"id":1350743,"date":"2026-01-29T11:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/putin-and-zelenskyys-meeting-do-the-negotiations-bring-the-end-of-the-war-closer\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T06:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:07:09","slug":"putin-and-zelenskyys-meeting-do-the-negotiations-bring-the-end-of-the-war-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/putin-and-zelenskyys-meeting-do-the-negotiations-bring-the-end-of-the-war-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Meeting with Putin: Step Toward Peace or a Trap?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n

After the first trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi since the start of Russia\u2019s full-scale war against Ukraine, sources in the U.S. administration suggested that a face-to-face meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin could take place in the near future.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Political fiction? Perhaps. But the trilateral meeting itself seemed like political fiction until recently\u2014and yet, it happened.<\/p>\n

When we habitually say that Putin is not so much conducting negotiations as imitating them\u2014that is, deliberately stalling\u2014we must understand that even imitation requires an agenda. The key point is that the Russian president is clearly not interested in a confrontation with his American counterpart and is doing everything possible to avoid one.<\/p>\n

And here, it seems, the Kremlin\u2019s repertoire of tricks meant to hypnotize the audience has been exhausted.<\/p>\n

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