Zelenskyy welcomes offers to moderate talks with Russia

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By YURAS KARMANAU, JIM HEINTZ, VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and JAMES LaPORTA

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is welcoming efforts to open talks with Russia.

In a video message Saturday, Zelenskyy said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev offered to help organize talks and that “we can only welcome that.”

Diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed have so far faltered.

Zelenskyy offered Friday to negotiate a key Russian demand: that Ukraine declare itself neutral and abandon its ambition of joining NATO. But movement to actually advance any diplomacy has appeared to sputter.

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[leftieNanner]

1. Putin will never go for that

He is all in on conquest.

And nothing else will do. Wish this would work, but I have my serious doubts.

[orwell]

2. The pressure on Putin...

...must be enormous.

This whole adventure has blown up in his face bigly.

He needs a way to extract himself and save face.

[Cozmo]

3. I think you are right but I'd love to see Putin run off with his tail between his legs

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Putin has shown his hand, in Ukraine, in eastern Europe, in America. Believe him the 5th time.

[yaesu]

5. Greece has summoned Russia's ambassador to its foreign ministry, after it said six Greek nationals

had been killed and six others wounded by Russian bombing near Mariupol in Ukraine. Like I've said before the longer this war goes on the more chance it has to escalate to a NATO war.

[PortTack]

7. Yes, but it also gets worse for Putin. His so called allies are not stepping up

His image as a great leader and savior of the Russian ppl crumbles.

He may not care, but there is no way he can win against NATO!

[Eyeball_Kid]

9. You're correct, IMO, about NATO.

There will be no nukes in this war. Putin will have his bluff called. And with conventional warfare, NATO is simply more powerful by degrees of magnitude.

Putin didn't just "step in it." He's getting thrown in the latrine.

[SunSeeker]

13. More like gurgling in the septic tank. nt

[OnDoutside]

6. It's just a publicity propaganda ploy, screw Putin.

[BlueIdaho]

8. They should be negotiating Putin's withdrawal

Russia’s military should be forced to drop their weapons and begin the long walk back to their border.

[KewlKat]

10. Maybe Jimmy Carter would be willing to give it a try?

[monkeyman1]

11. Russia should dump Putin & begin talk's !

might go a long way's on ending this shit & end sanctioning I! just end bloodshed because of a crazy sob ! It's just needless because of stupid mf !

[58Sunliner]

12. Doubt it. Putin wanted him in Belarus, an ally. Sounded like a set-up.