"Zelensky believed that Putin would convince": How was the first meeting of the leaders of Ukraine and the Russian Federation (video)

However, Zelensky made Putin understand that he had his position, so the Russian president has refused to negotiate and decided to achieve his goals differently, said Vadim Prystayko in an interview with RBC-Ukraine. The details of the four -sided meeting of 2019 in the Elysee Palace in Paris, the Foreign Ministry, refused, noting that the details of such negotiations should remain secret. He only noted that an attempt to talk from Vladimir Zelensky was.

"President Zelensky sincerely believed that he would somehow be convinced President Putin that he could be said to us. He as a person who never engaged in politics, and even more safety, did not understand that the question is not we. Being the name of the President of the Ukrainian: may be Yanukovych, Yushchenko, or Zelensky, or Poroshenko. According to the diplomat, trying to show flexibility and "bring positions closer" were in vain, because the Russians would in any case do what they want.

Prystayko claims that the Kremlin hoped to drag Vladimir Zelensky to his side, leaving him even less political will than Viktor Yanukovych. "And they believed that a non -systemic person who has no clearly established vision and contacts in the military elite or in the intelligence, counterintelligence elite, in expert circles, and it would be faster and easier and easier.

But even half a year of stay in the The President of Zelensky's authorities discovered a lot for him that not everything is, unfortunately, just as in the film, and it is not possible to solve everything so easily, "the former head of Ukrainian diplomacy said. According to Prystayk, seeing the position of the Ukrainian President, the Russians decided to act differently. "We have not succeeded as they think, we will decide in a way.

Again, counting on the inexperience of President Zelensky and in general the imbalance of the political system, which survived the transition from standard, established procedures to new ones," he said. According to the diplomat, the Kremlin decided on a full -scale invasion, because at that time he considered Ukraine a very weak state. Just as in 2014, they annexed Crimea and occupied part of the Donbass, taking advantage of the revolution.

Currently, the time has not come for negotiations, but it is not necessary to wait for the return of territories in the borders of 1991, says Prystayko. He noted that peace or victory should bring the country to a better condition than it was before the war. "At the heart of our future arrangements should be guaranteed that our children will not have to fight our grandchildren," the diplomat summarized.

We will remind, on December 12, Presidential Head Andriy Yermak, talking about a trip to the United States, said that the newly elected President Donald Trump wants to complete the war "Just Peace" and his message coincides with the Ukrainian position. The Wall Street Journal wrote that at a meeting with Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Zelensky in France, Donald Trump voiced the first thoughts about the war.