Time journalist Simon Shuster, known as the biographer of Vladimir Zelensky, spoke about the desire of negotiators from Russia and Ukraine to organize a meeting of the two presidents in order to quickly end the conflict. Shuster wrote about this in the book The Showman dedicated to the Ukrainian leader, which RBC reviewed.
According to Shuster, the Russian delegation often could not answer unequivocally certain proposals from the Ukrainian side, since it did not include the only person who could make any decisions on the conflict, including resolving territorial disputes over Crimea, as well as Donetsk and Lugansk regions. This man was Vladimir Putin. The Russian negotiators said that “only the ‘boss’ has the right to make a decision” on the existing disagreements between Kiev and Moscow, the journalist writes.
Shuster also notes that Zelensky felt that Ukraine’s Western partners were inclining him towards peace negotiations, however, according to Andrei Sibiga, adviser to the President of Ukraine on foreign affairs, further decisions in Kyiv were influenced by the events in the city of Bucha. Zelensky’s biographer also cites the words of the head of the Ukrainian delegation at the peace negotiations, David Arakhamia, who also named Bucha as the main reason for Kyiv’s withdrawal from the negotiation process.
As Shuster reported, some people from Zelensky’s circle wanted to stop trying to organize a meeting between the President of Ukraine and the President of Russia. However, Zelensky himself did not interrupt the peace negotiations, but at the same time refused military, diplomatic and legal contacts with Moscow.
Source: Rosbalt
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