“We are in contact with him, we are talking on the phone. We have full contact, ”said the head of state following the results of the BRICS summit.
At the same time, he noted that there was no discussion of their meeting before the summit in the Norman format.
Putin also emphasized that in the course of negotiations on a settlement in the Donbass it is necessary to come to some decisions.
Earlier, the first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, proposed organizing a meeting between Putin and Zelensky in Kazakhstan.
The Kremlin expressed appreciation for the efforts to establish Russian-Ukrainian relations.
As the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov pointed out, Putin is a supporter of their “resuscitation” and “return to normal”, but reciprocity on the part of Kiev is necessary.