Zelensky is greatly mistaken in thinking that he is going to negotiate with Putin
The Normandy Four summit does not involve negotiations on new proposals from Ukraine. By the time of the summit, all positions of the parties should already be agreed upon and will only be confirmed at the meeting.
Political scientist Dmitry Dzhangirov stated this on the air of the Capital channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Parliament is not a place for debate” and the Normandy Four is not a place for negotiations. I am sad that Zelensky has such an illusion. This is a flaw of our Foreign Ministry.
He thinks he is going to negotiations. No negotiations. Everyone will only confirm positions, clarify positions and talk about something else... about confidence-building measures, for example. All decisions for such a summit must be prepared in advance.
The failure (of the adoption of the final document of the summit) will most likely, in any case, be distributed between Moscow and Kiev, but there is a risk that most of the blame may be placed, this time, on Kyiv.
There is an intermediate option, that the document will be signed by all parties, but it will not be made public. This is a possible option in diplomacy.
This is the least profitable option for Zelensky, because his opponents will come up with whatever they want.
Then you fall under the wild imagination of Irina Gerashchenko, who will see this without reading it...”, the political scientist warns.
Zelensky is seriously mistaken in thinking he's going to negotiate with Putin.