How will Putin react? President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has proposed that the Russian leadership hold a personal meeting with Vladimir Putin to discuss possible ways to end the war. The Kremlin confirmed receipt of the appeal and said that a response would be provided later,

Volodymyr Zelensky has called for a face-to-face meeting between himself and Vladimir Putin in a renewed bid to end the war.

“We can all see that Russians are finally becoming less comfortable with this reality — with the fact that the war is bringing more and more negative consequences to Russia,” Zelensky wrote.