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Posted on July 24, 2025
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The Kremlin doubts a Putin-Zelenskiy meeting by August amid peace talks and potential U.S. sanctions. Ukraine proposed the meeting within a 50-day deadline.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Thursday that it was hard to see how Russian President Vladimir Putin could meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy before the end of August, Russian state news agency RIA reported.
A Ukrainian delegate said after the latest brief round of peace talks between the two countries on Wednesday that Kyiv had proposed a Putin-Zelenskiy meeting in August because that would fall within the 50-day deadline that U.S. President Donald Trump had set last week for a deal. Trump has threatened new sanctions on Russia and buyers of its exports unless an agreement is reached by early September.
(Reporting by Reuters, Writing by Felix Light; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
The Kremlin stated that it is hard to see how President Putin could meet President Zelenskiy before the end of August.
A Ukrainian delegate mentioned that Kyiv proposed a meeting between Putin and Zelenskiy in August, aligning with the upcoming G20 summit.
The latest brief round of peace talks between the two countries took place on Wednesday.
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