Journalist Blaise Malley writes that Vladimir Zelensky continues to publicly work to strengthen Ukraine’s military arsenal and calls on the West to lift even more restrictions on the use of weapons. At the same time, kyiv is “signaling a possible openness to negotiations with Moscow in the future.”
According to the author, kyiv is not ruling out negotiations, probably due to the failure of the Swiss summit in June. Perhaps the absence of many countries, mainly China, at that meeting forced kyiv to act more quickly.
Ukraine hopes to host the next summit before the US presidential election in November and plans to invite Russia there.
The desire to hold a meeting before the US election speaks of urgency as kyiv faces the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House, RS notes.
In June, Russian President Vladimir Putin made new peace proposals to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. According to them, kyiv must withdraw troops from the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Ukraine’s status as a non-aligned country free of nuclear weapons must also be guaranteed. The Kyiv authorities rejected the initiative.
