At Notre-Dames grand re-opening Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskiy had their first meet-up since Trumps election win last month. The hour-long talk (hosted by French leader Emmanuel Macron) sparked new peace-talk ideas
Following the Paris meeting Trump posted on Truth Social about Ukraine-Russia situation: “Its time to stop this madness and start talks now“. He mentioned his good ties with Putin and suggested that China could help find solution; however his numbers about war losses dont match official data
Zelenskiy quickly responded with his own view: peace needs real back-up not just papers. “Our people want peace more than anyone but we cant trust simple deals without solid guarantees“ he wrote. The Ukrainian leader shared different numbers: about 43k soldiers lost their lives and 370k got wounds in this war
The Kremlin spoke through its mouth-piece Dmitry Peskov who brought up old Istanbul deal from 2022 as starting point. Their demands stayed same - no NATO for Ukraine plus control over four regions. Moscow says talks could start if Kyiv cancels its no-contact rule with Russian leaders