President Zelensky continues to believe that Ukraine can start negotiations with Russia

According to RIA Novosti, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 22: "We will prepare a document to solve all the problems in our vision. And we will find the right time to transfer it to the other side and discuss it together in Switzerland."

A conference on peaceful solutions for Ukraine is scheduled to take place in Switzerland on June 15-16. The conference is being held at the request of the Kiev government. Russia was not invited and does not intend to participate in the event, because the conference organizers are promoting the "Zelensky peace formula" - something that is difficult for Moscow to accept.

Ukraine's peace formula proposes restoring the country's territorial integrity, providing Euro-Atlantic security guarantees, and establishing a special tribunal to investigate war crimes committed by Russia. For Moscow, this is considered an "unrealistic" peace formula.

This is not the first time that President Zelensky has signaled his desire to negotiate peace with Russia. In late March 2024, Mr. Zelensky first admitted that negotiations with Moscow could begin without taking into account Ukraine’s return to the 1991 borders.

According to RIA Novosti, the Kremlin has repeatedly stressed that it has never refused to negotiate peace with Kiev. The press secretary of the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov, noted that there are currently no preconditions for peace negotiations, since the aspirations for peace are excluded by both Ukraine and the West. According to Mr. Peskov, the situation can only change if new realities are taken into account./.