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President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that Ukraine would be ready to hold talks with Russia in any format once a ceasefire is in place and the fighting between Kyiv and Moscow’s forces has stopped.<\/p>\n
The Ukrainian leader also told reporters at a briefing that a Ukrainian delegation meeting officials from Western countries in London on Wednesday would have a mandate to discuss a full or partial ceasefire.<\/p>\n
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“We are ready to record that after a ceasefire, we are ready to sit down in any format so that there are no dead ends,” Zelensky said at the briefing in the presidential office in Kyiv.<\/p>\n
“It will not be possible to agree on everything quickly,” he warned, noting numerous highly complex issues such as territory, security guarantees and Ukraine’s membership in the NATO military alliance.<\/p>\n
The talks in London, which are to set to bring together officials from the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Ukraine, come amid a flurry of intense US-led diplomatic efforts to find a way to end Russia’s war with Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Zelensky said he would be happy to meet US President Donald Trump later this week when they attend the funeral of Pope Francis.<\/p>\n
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n
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