President Volodymyr Zelenskyy answered whether he would pick up the phone if Russian dictator Vladimir Putin called him.
Will Zelenskyy talk to Putin
During the press conference after the forum "Ukraine. Year 2024" Zelensky was asked if he would pick up the phone if Putin called him at night.
He won't call me, he doesn't have a mobile phone. And I do not use the telegraph of 1917. He won't call me, he doesn't want to end this war. Today it is so.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
President of Ukraine
Meeting with Putin in 2019
Zelensky also talked about his meeting with Putin in December 2019. Then they met face to face during the "Normandy meeting" in Paris with the participation of Zelensky, Putin, Macron and Merkel.
We had a long conversation in different tones. I told him that the Minsk agreements will not work, because the topic of the withdrawal of troops along the contact line is not working. I showed: look at the time we took. I showed him that we will be withdrawing for 20 years, which means that we will be in a state of frozen conflict for 20 years, which indicates that the war is not over. That's what we talked about. They talked about it for a long time and traded.
They also talked about the exchange. Then Ukraine and the Russian Federation exchanged more than 100 people.
Well, he constantly raised the issue of ceasefire (ceasefire — ed.). But we later saw how it could work. For several months, something tried to work there, but still there were losses later.
