Trump asked Zelenskyy to travel to Moscow for meeting with Putin, but he refused, Bloomberg says
US President Donald Trump has again urged his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy to travel to Moscow for a meeting with Russian ruler Vladimir Putin, but Zelenskyy refused. The Office of the President has denied this report.
Source: Bloomberg, as reported by European Pravda
Details: Bloomberg says Trump asked Zelenskyy during their meeting in New York on 22 September to travel to Moscow for talks with Putin on ending the war.
Zelenskyy rejected the proposal, while sources familiar with the Ukrainian president's position said that Trump's raising of the issue had irritated him.
When asked by Russian journalists when he would visit Moscow, Zelenskyy replied: "On a missile", after which, according to media reports, he shouted a swear word.
The White House did not respond to Bloomberg's request for comment.
This week, Zelenskyy and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held separate meetings with representatives of the Trump administration in New York. The US pushed both sides to agree to a truce on attacks against each other's energy facilities amid a sharp rise in global diesel prices.
Update: The Office of the President has denied these reports. "This is false information," they stated.
Background:
- On 25 September, Zelenskyy said technical peace talks between the US, Ukraine and Russia would likely take place in the United Arab Emirates, although the US have not yet proposed a date.
- Earlier, he noted that the G20 summit in Miami could provide a venue for a trilateral meeting involving Ukraine, the US and Russia.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed hope that Putin would attend the G20 leaders' summit, which will take place in Miami in December this year.
- It recently emerged that Putin had rejected a proposal from Zelenskyy to hold talks on ending the war on the sidelines of the G20 summit.
This news has been updated since publication.
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