乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基周五拒绝了俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京提出的他来莫斯科谈判外交解决方案的建议,并在接受美国广播公司新闻首席全球事务记者玛莎·拉达茨(Martha Raddatz)的采访时首次提出了这一建议
“他可以来基辅,”泽连斯基说。“当我的国家每天都在遭受导弹袭击时,我不能去莫斯科。我不能去这个恐怖分子的首都。”
普京“明白这一点”,他告诉拉达茨。
泽连斯基和拉达茨参观了位于乌克兰西部的一家美资制造厂,并在那里坐下来,这家工厂最近成为俄罗斯导弹袭击的目标。
泽连斯基一再表示,普京不会寻求与他会面,因为他仍在继续进行乌克兰战争。
俄罗斯总统周三表示,“他从未反对与泽连斯基会面。”
“如果泽连斯基准备好了,那就让他来莫斯科,”普京说。"这个会议将会举行。"
总统唐纳德·特朗普将两位领导人的会面作为他斡旋和平协议的首要任务。
“最终,我会把他们两个放在一个房间里,”他在八月告诉福克斯新闻频道。
特朗普将美国、俄罗斯和乌克兰领导人之间的三边会晤作为他上个月与普京在阿拉斯加举行峰会的目标,后来他表示,普京和泽连斯基之间的双边会晤将在乌克兰领导人来到白宫后举行。
“一场三重革命将会发生,”奥巴马总统上周在一份声明中坚称采访每日来电者。“一个毕,我不知道,”他说。
德国总理弗里德利希·默茨本周表示,普京和泽连斯基之间的双边会谈“很明显”不会举行。
在周五与“本周”联合主持人拉达茨的采访中,泽连斯基表示,普京的提议旨在“推迟会晤”,并坚称他泽连斯基已经“准备好以任何形式举行会晤”
普京是在“玩游戏”美国,”泽连斯基告诉拉达茨。
乌克兰外交部长安德瑞·西比哈本周指出,七个国家——奥地利、罗马教廷、瑞士、土耳其和三个海湾国家——已经准备好主持和平谈判,泽连斯基将会出席。
“如果一个人不想在战争期间见面,当然,他可以提出一些我或其他人都不能接受的东西,”泽连斯基告诉拉达茨。
Zelenskyy rejects Putin invitation: 'He can come to Kyiv'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday declined Russian President Vladimir Putin's suggestion he come to Moscow to negotiate a diplomatic settlement, addressing the proposal for the first time in an interview with ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz for "This Week."
"He can come to Kyiv," Zelenskyy said. "I can't go to Moscow when my country's under missiles, under attack, each day. I can't go to the capital of this terrorist."
Putin "understands this," he told Raddatz.
Zelenskyy and Raddatz toured and sat down at the site of an American-owned manufacturing plant in western Ukraine that was the recent target of a Russian missile attack.
Zelenskyy said repeatedly that Putin doesn't seek a meeting with him as he continues to prosecute the war in Ukraine.
The Russian president on Wednesday said "he has never been against meeting with Zelenskyy."
"If Zelenskyy is ready, then let him come to Moscow," Putin said. "This meeting will take place."
PresidentDonald Trumphas made a meeting between the two leaders a priority in his efforts to broker a peace deal.
"Ultimately, I'm going to put the two of them in a room," he told Fox News in August.
Trump made a trilateral meeting between leaders of the U.S., Russia and Ukraine the goal of his summit in Alaska last month with Putin, and later said a bilateral meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy would happen after the Ukrainian leader came to the White House.
"A tri would happen," the president maintained last week in aninterview with The Daily Caller. "A bi, I don't know about," he said.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said this week it was "clear" that a bilateral between Putin and Zelenskyy would not take place.
In the Friday interview with "This Week" co-anchor Raddatz, Zelenskyy said Putin's offer was intended to "postpone the meeting," insisting that he, Zelenskyy, was "ready for the meeting" in "any kind of format."
Putin is "playing games with theUnited States," Zelenskyy told Raddatz.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on X this week pointed to seven countries -- Austria, the Holy See, Switzerland, Türkiye, and three Gulf states -- which he said were ready to host peace talks that Zelenskyy would attend.
"If a person doesn't want to meet during the war, of course, he can propose something which can’t be acceptable by me or by others," Zelenskyy told Raddatz.