Vladimir Putin Agrees To Meet Ukraine’s President Zelensky For Peace Talks.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has “finally agreed” he will need to meet with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in person for peace talks in order to resolve the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

The two leaders have let their diplomatic teams conduct peace talks on neutral ground since after the start of the conflict on February 24, 2022, but now Putin is ready to have a peaceful discussion with his Ukrainian counterpart.

According to the BBC, the Russian President is now believed to have caved to his top diplomats and accepted he will have to attend negotiations himself “at some point.”

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Putin has come to terms with fact he will have to lead the negotiations at some time in the future, the BBC’s Lyse Doucet said.

‘The diplomats are talking, the negotiators are talking. We understand President Putin has finally agreed that he will meet, at some point, President Zelensky who has been asking for a meeting since January,’ she said.

‘He hasn’t said it in public, he says quite the opposite in public.’

Zelensky yesterday declared that Russia will ‘go down in history of responsibility for war crimes’, and admonished the invaders’ bombardment and siege of southern port city Mariupol, which has for weeks been pounded by airstrikes and missiles.

‘To do this to a peaceful city… is a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come,’ the Ukrainian leader said.

He added that peace talks with Russia are despite being ‘not easy and pleasant’.

According to reports, Kyiv has insisted on the inclusion of one or more Western nuclear powers in the negotiations with the Kremlin and on legally binding security guarantees for Ukraine.