MOSCOW: Russia welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s statement that Kyiv is willing to negotiate over the war, but it is not yet clear to Moscow who it might be negotiating with, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
Zelensky made the statement in a letter to US President Donald Trump, which Trump made public on Tuesday.
“Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians,” Trump said in an address to Congress while quoting from the letter.
Asked how the Kremlin viewed this, spokesman Dmitry Peskov replied: “Positively.”
But he added: “The question is who to sit down with. For now, the Ukrainian president is still legally prohibited from negotiating with the Russian side. So, overall, the approach is positive, but the nuances have not changed yet.”
Peskov was referring to a Zelensky decree in 2022 that ruled out negotiations with President Vladimir Putin.
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Kremlin: Zelensky’s letter to Trump on readiness to negotiate is positive
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Kremlin: Zelensky’s letter to Trump on readiness to negotiate is positive
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov: ‘The question is who to sit down with. For now, the Ukrainian president is still legally prohibited from negotiating with the Russian side’
Avalanche in the highest Slovak mountain range kills 2 Hungarian climbers
- The victims were located under the avalanche by witnesses
BRATISLAVA: An avalanche in Slovakia’s High Tatras mountain range killed two Hungarians, the country’s mountain rescue service said Friday.
It said the two were male climbers age 38 and 37.
The service said bad weather prevented them from using a helicopter and they had to reach a valley under the Tupa peak, where the avalanche took place, on foot.
The victims were located under the avalanche by witnesses but they did not survive.
On Friday, there was only a slight danger of avalanches in Slovakia’s highest mountain range.
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