He sowed further doubt Friday, claiming that Zelenskyy was the one not willing to negotiate by refusing to rule out joining NATO or concede to the Kremlin\u2019s maximalist territorial demands.<\/p>\n
\u201cPutin is ready to meet with Zelenskyy when the agenda is ready for a summit, and this agenda is not ready at all,\u201d Lavrov\u00a0told U.S. channel NBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cZelenskyy said no to everything. \u2026 How can we meet with a person who is pretending to be a leader?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n While U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said earlier this week the Russian ruler had agreed to a face-to-face meeting, touting his supposed openness to talks as a breakthrough, European diplomats and leaders have voiced skepticism that Moscow is really interested in ending the war and willing to negotiate in good faith.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are forgetting that Russia has not made one single concession<\/a>, and they are the ones who are the aggressor here,\u201d the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n Zelenskyy accused Moscow on Friday of dragging out peace talks in a bid to hold off punishing American sanctions, which Trump has threatened to impose on Russia and its trading partners if the Kremlin does not participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He sowed further doubt Friday, claiming that Zelenskyy was the one not willing to negotiate by refusing to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,4017,12,5607,55437,55911,68161,643,68162,3,1206,1203,18066,21,19,22,20,25,24,6508,40477,1139,45960],"class_list":["post-102135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-cities","tag-donald-trump","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-kaja-kallas","tag-kremlin","tag-macron","tag-marco-rubio","tag-missiles","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-sergey-lavrov","tag-u-s-foreign-policy","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}