{"id":12675,"date":"2021-04-26T09:18:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=12675"},"modified":"2021-04-26T09:18:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:18:11","slug":"why-zelensky-invited-putin-to-donbass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=12675","title":{"rendered":"Why Zelensky Invited Putin to Donbass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putin will definitely not be in Kyiv, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=12517\">Zelensky<\/a> invited the Russian president to Donbas after another round of diplomatic tension.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 26, 2021 \u2013 Diplomatic Affairs<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He noted that the reaction of President Zelensky in the form of an invitation to Putin \u201cto anywhere in Donbas\u201d arose after Yermak&#8217;s negotiations with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dmitry_Kozak\">Dmitry Kozak<\/a> (Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the videoconference of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=7339\">political<\/a> advisers, Mr. Kozak proposed to meet on the contact line and hold a meeting at the level of advisers there. To which I immediately retorted to him that I definitely had no problems with this and I go there quite often. And, reporting to the president about the videoconference, I told about this moment of the negotiations, \u201dsaid the head of the OP.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When asked by a journalist whether it is worth waiting for Putin in Kyiv since he refused to come to Donbas, Yermak replied:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I think this is incorrect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The head of the President&#8217;s Office added that Ukraine is ready for negotiations in a place where the military risk their lives and give them up every day. Most of the Ukrainians killed recently are victims of snipers, including those of Russian origin, Yermak stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Read also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=12590\">Russian Forces Return to Their Bases After a Crowd Near the Ukrainian Border<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin will definitely not be in Kyiv, and Zelensky invited the Russian president to Donbas after another round of diplomatic tension. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 26, 2021 \u2013 Diplomatic Affairs \u00a0 He noted that the reaction of President Zelensky in the form of an invitation to Putin \u201cto anywhere in Donbas\u201d arose after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[328,5965,5030,813,996,2399,1106],"class_list":["post-12675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-diplomatic-affairs","tag-donbas","tag-invite","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12677,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions\/12677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}