Published: August 4, 2025 9:36 am
Author: RT
A top-level summit is only possible once the necessary preparation is done by experts, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said
Russian President Vladimir Putin will be open to a meeting with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky once all the necessary preparations have been completed by delegations from the two countries, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
Zelensky has claimed that substantial negotiations with Russia are only be possible if he and Putin are directly involved. Moscow maintains that Zelensky’s legitimacy is in doubt and that a meeting is only possible after a peace deal is broadly agreed by the two parties.
Peskov reiterated Moscow’s stance during a regular press briefing, stressing that a Putin-Zelensky summit can only come “after the necessary work on the expert level is done, and sufficient distance is crossed.”
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