{"id":1190556,"date":"2025-07-25T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1190556"},"modified":"2025-07-25T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:23:11","slug":"zelenskyy-war-cannot-end-without-a-leaders-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/zelenskyy-war-cannot-end-without-a-leaders-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy: War Cannot End Without a Leaders&#8217; Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky<strong>y<\/strong> says direct talks between top leaders are necessary to end the war, noting that recent operations inside Russia have pushed Moscow to consider such a meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to journalists on July 24, Zelenskyy commented on the Istanbul negotiations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe need to end this war, and that probably starts with a leaders&#8217; summit. There\u2019s no other way. A clear agenda is needed for such a meeting&#8230;<br>We\u2019ve always raised this issue publicly, and now the Russians have started discussing it with us. That\u2019s already a move toward some kind of meeting format.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Zelenskyy suggested that <strong>Russia\u2019s shift in attitude may be linked to recent events on its own territory<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cBeyond the negotiation process, dialogue, and diplomacy\u2014many things happened on their territory. You\u2019ve seen it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He also highlighted recent progress in the Istanbul talks<\/strong>, including a significant breakthrough:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe agreed on the exchange of 1,200 prisoners of war.<br>The second point, which took a long time to get to, is the release of civilians\u2014political prisoners and journalists.<br>We\u2019ve started working on the lists. Russia is expected to release civilians, not exchange them. We\u2019re now looking for a workable format.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says direct talks between top leaders are necessary &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1190557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36418,36415],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1190556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en-2","category-11473-news-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zelenskyy: War Cannot End Without a Leaders&#039; Summit - Freedom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/zelenskyy-war-cannot-end-without-a-leaders-summit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zelenskyy: War Cannot End Without a Leaders&#039; 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