{"id":9844,"date":"2022-05-30T13:52:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/?p=9844"},"modified":"2022-05-30T13:52:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:52:03","slug":"germany-and-france-urge-putin-to-meet-zelenskyy-to-end-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/germany-and-france-urge-putin-to-meet-zelenskyy-to-end-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany and France urge Putin to meet Zelenskyy to end war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

EU leaders call for ceasefire in Ukraine and ask Putin to hold direct talks with Zelenskyy <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

German and French leaders urged Russian President Vladimir Putin for a ceasefire and to hold direct talks with Ukrainian President\u00a0Volodymyr Zelensky as the war nears the 100-day mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President\u00a0Emmanuel Macron\u00a0and German Chancellor\u00a0Olaf Scholz\u00a0spoke via phone with Russian President Putin\u00a0on May 28. They emphasized that Moscow and Kyiv should negotiate a solution to the war with due respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaders of Germany and France \u201creiterated their insistent request for a ceasefire and called upon President Putin to agree to direct dialogue with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the earliest possible opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European leaders also pressed Putin to release roughly \u201c2,500 defenders of Azovstal held as prisoners of war by Russian forces,\u201d according to a\u00a0press release<\/a>\u00a0from the French embassy.\u00a0Azovstal was the final holdout of Ukrainian defense forces before Russia seized the port city of Mariupol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Macron and Chancellor Scholz also stressed the urgent need for the blockade of Odesa to be lifted to allow the export of Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea and thus avert a global food crisis.

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Russia open to renewing dialogue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Putin confirmed that the Russian side is \u201copen to renewing dialogue with Kyiv,\u201d but blamed Ukraine for the current impasse in the peace talks, the Kremlin said. Putin also said that Western weapons deliveries could lead to \u201ca further destabilization of the situation,\u201d and he renewed his demand that the West lifts sanctions on Russia to facilitate the export of grain and fertilizer amid global concern about food shortages.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses Davos 2022. (Image Credit: World Economic Forum)<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Zelenskyy willing to meet Putin to end the war<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier said that President Vladimir Putin was the only Russian official he was willing to meet with to discuss how to end the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we are talking about ending this war without him personally, that decision cannot be taken,\u201d Zelenskyy said in a video address at the World Economic Forum in Davos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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