{"id":1387316,"date":"2026-04-28T11:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-and-putins-meeting-diplomatic-noise-or-reality\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:10:49","slug":"zelenskyy-and-putins-meeting-diplomatic-noise-or-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zelenskyy-and-putins-meeting-diplomatic-noise-or-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy and Putin&#8217;s meeting: diplomatic noise or reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Recently, the possibility of holding talks between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia on the territory of third countries, in particular in Azerbaijan or Turkey, has been actively discussed. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed his readiness for such a dialogue, but these statements are perceived ambiguously in expert circles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The prospects for a meeting between the presidents of Ukraine and the Russian Federation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nAhsmdG7KCQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were assessed<\/a> by participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war, Alexei Petrov, on the air of &#8220;Pryamoye&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> According to him, the Kremlin traditionally responds to such proposals with demands to &#8220;finalize&#8221; existing conditions, which creates a situation of diplomatic impasse.<\/p>\n<p> Petrov calls these processes an imitation of activity. &#8220;I perceive it as diplomatic noise. And will this meeting ever happen? Will this be a meeting between the President of Ukraine and the president of the aggressor country, the Russian Federation. What will their last names be? God knows,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/youtu.be\/nAhsmdG7KCQ?t=231<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/no-concessions-of-territories-and-interests-budanov-voiced-red-lines-in-negotiations-with-russia\/\">No concessions of territories and interests: Budanov voiced \u201cred lines\u201d in negotiations with Russia<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> Another guest on the air, political scientist Oleksandr Paliy, also believes that real progress depends only on the successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the battlefield. In his opinion, only painful territorial losses will force Russia to seek real peace. Currently, the Russian leadership cannot stop the fighting due to pressure from the internal radicalized community, which the authorities themselves mobilized, the political expert summed up.<\/p>\n<p> As &#8220;Pryamiy&#8221; reported, the day before, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-dopuskaie-perehovory-zelenskoho-i-putina-v-turechchyni-sybiha\/\">Ukraine announced its readiness to hold a meeting at the highest level with Russia<\/a> with the participation of international partners. This is a format of negotiations involving the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, and, probably, the United States.<\/p>\n<p> Subsequently, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced his intention to hold<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-hotova-do-trystoronnikh-perehovoriv-zi-ssha-ta-rf-v-azerbaydzhani\/\">trilateral talks with the participation of the United States and Russia on the territory of Azerbaijan<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, the Kremlin said that Vladimir <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/putin-hotovyy-zustritysia-iz-zelenskym-pieskov\/\">Putin is ready for a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> , but it must be meaningful and productive. It clarified that the Russian dictator does not rule out the possibility of negotiations and is ready to hold a meeting in Moscow at any time.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, at the end of last year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared his readiness <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-bud-iakomu-formati-zelenskyy-zaiavyv-pro-hotovnist-do-zustrichi-z-putinym\/\">to meet with Vladimir Putin in any format<\/a> . He called the key condition the correspondence of Russia&#8217;s statements to its real actions.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the possibility of holding talks between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia on the territory of third countries, in particular in Azerbaijan or Turkey, has been actively discussed. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed his readiness for such a dialogue, but these statements are perceived ambiguously in expert circles. The prospects for a meeting between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1387299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1387316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1387299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}