Zelensky proposes direct peace talks to Putin

It is part of Zelensky’s plan that Putin will reject this offer, political analyst Viktor Shlinchak comments on Facebook:

“This letter to Moscow contains a deliberate trap. Zelensky is offering a way out, knowing full well that Putin will reject it. But this rejection can then be shown to everyone – the Russians, the Americans, the Europeans and the Global South. It can be used as proof that the problem does not lie in the formats [of the peace talks], as some believe, but rather in that Putin is fundamentally unwilling to end the war without Ukraine’s defeat.”