Ukrainian president pitches summit with Putin at Vatican as Kremlin says it’s ‘wonderful’ to hear Kiev talk about peace, not war

Amid reports

Amid reports of worsening fighting in the Donbass in recent weeks, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for a meeting to discuss the situation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to take place in the Vatican.

In an interview with Italian daily La Repubblica published on Tuesday, Zelensky said that there was a need to meet to discuss the crisis in the east of his country, bemoaning the lack of “real direct communication” in previous years. He has since instructed officials to open channels with the Kremlin and claimed “things are getting to the stage where the meeting will take place.”

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