09:44, 04 марта 2022, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Ruslan KHARIZOV
Volodymyr Zelensky invited Vladimir Putin to a direct dialogue. He said this in a conversation with representatives of the world media in the press center of the presidential office in Kyiv.
He once again stressed that Ukraine is not going to and does not want to attack Russia.
«We want to protect ourselves, and they want to break it. Get out of our land. If you don’t want to go now, sit down at the negotiating table with me, I’m free. But not 30 meters away, like with Macron, Scholz. I’m a neighbour. I don’t need to be kept at 30 meters. I don’t bite, I’m a normal man, sit down with me, talk to me, what are you afraid of? We do not threaten anyone, we are not terrorists, we do not seize banks or seize foreign lands,» Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Today is the ninth day of fighting in Ukraine. On February 24, 2022, the Russian President Vladimir Putin announced start of a special military operation. It was regarded in Ukraine and in the West as a full-scale invasion.
Second round of Russian-Ukrainian talks took place on Thursday.