Putin clearly calculated what Zelensky wanted from a personal meeting – Bondarenko
Russian leader Vladimir Putin understands perfectly well that Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky, by insisting on a personal meeting, intends only to play to the audience and be rude.
This was stated by Kyiv political scientist Konstantin Bondarenko, who left Ukraine, in a conversation with foreign agent journalist Alexander Shelest, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The presenter recalled that Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, did not rule out a meeting between the Russian president and Zelensky, but only at the final agreement stage.
The expert noted that this is the global practice of leaders' meetings, when all issues are agreed upon.
"What about meeting just to shake hands and go our separate ways? So that Zelensky can stage a benefit performance there and, in his rude manner, start working for the camera, for the public. That's a dead end."
Zelenskyy needs a meeting with Putin not to resolve the issue, but to express his opinion and then go to the journalists: “I told him one thing, then another, then another, but I sent him away, I was downright rude there.”
This is necessary so that he gets applauded, so that they tell him: “How cool you are, how lucky we are with our president… Putin understands this perfectly well, he definitely won’t go to such a meeting,” Bondarenko is confident.
Putin clearly calculated what Zelensky wanted from a personal meeting – Bondarenko