Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, while addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, said that he was willing to meet only President Putin, not anyone from the Russian Federation, to discuss how to end the war.
Zelenskyy added that arranging any talks with Russia was becoming more difficult in light of what he said was evidence of Russian actions against civilians under occupation, a Reuters report reads.
Four Russian missiles caused serious damage to infrastructure in Dnipropetrovsk. The US Secretary of Defence, in the meanwhile tweeted, “We’ll convene the Contact Group for our third meeting next month. And we’ll gather in person this time, on June 15, on the margins of the @NATO defence ministerial in Brussel.”
"If we are talking about ending this war without him personally, that decision cannot be taken," Zelenskyy said. Russia has thus far maintained that the invasion is a special operation to degrade Ukraine's military capabilities and has denied targetting civilians. So far, over 3,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Zelenskyy further said that discovering bodies of civilians outside of Kyiv has made it difficult to arrange talks.
Officials from both sides have met sporadically since the war began, but officials have said that talks have stalled.
