{"id":5638,"date":"2025-05-12T06:22:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T06:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/ukraines-zelensky-welcomes-putins-call-for-peace-talks\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T06:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T06:22:36","slug":"ukraines-zelensky-welcomes-putins-call-for-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/ukraines-zelensky-welcomes-putins-call-for-peace-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s Zelensky Welcomes Putin&#8217;s Call For Peace Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Putin effectively rejected ceasefire proposal and proposed restarting direct talks with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"Art-exp_wr\" id=\"ignorediv\">\n                                        <!-- Story Text --><br \/>\n                                                                                                                        <b class=\"place_cont\">Kyiv: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is pleased to see that Russia is finally engaging with finding an end to the war, but there must be a ceasefire before peace talks can start.<\/p>\n<p>Calling it a &#8220;positive sign,&#8221; he said that &#8220;the entire world has been waiting for this for a very long time. And the very first step in truly ending any war is a ceasefire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--MIDTABOOLA--><\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin in remarks to the media overnight effectively rejected the ceasefire proposal and proposed restarting direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15 instead.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>                                                                                <!-- Featured Video --><br \/>\n                                                                                                                        <!-- Recommended Widget -->\n                                                                                                                    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s Putin effectively rejected ceasefire proposal and proposed restarting direct talks with Ukraine. Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is pleased to see that Russia is finally engaging with finding an end to the war, but there must be a ceasefire before peace talks can start. Calling it a &#8220;positive sign,&#8221; he said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5640,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions\/5640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}