Finnish president reports on conversation with Zelenskyy after call with Putin

Finnish President Alexander Stubb has spoken about a joint call with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that took place immediately after Støre and Stubb's conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Source: Stubb on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda

Details: The Finnish president said that he and Støre had had a "good phone call" with Zelenskyy, during which they had discussed the conversation with Putin.

Quote: "Finland and Norway will continue to support Ukraine, and the efforts to find a just and lasting peace."

Background:

• On Tuesday 27 October, Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre held a phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on their own initiative. Stubb said the discussion was "frank and substantive".

• On 20 October, Zelenskyy, Støre and Stubb held talks in Oslo with US President Donald Trump's envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
• Afterwards Witkoff travelled to St Petersburg to meet Putin, whom he described as a "humanitarian".
• On 23 October, Zelenskyy spoke with the US president's special envoys and said that a trilateral meeting at team level on ending Russia's war against Ukraine was planned for the first half of November.
• Yuri Ushakov, an aide to Putin, claims that Russia is ready to resume trilateral talks with the US and Ukraine on ending the Russia-Ukraine war after 4 November.

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