“I am more interested in whether we can really meet substantively, not declaratively ... but really meet more substantively than it was at the first meeting in the Normandy format, because there were results, after all, more than 100 people after this meeting we returned home ", - the TV channel" 112 Ukraine "quotes his words on the forum YES Brainstorming. 

As Zelensky stressed, past negotiations have yielded important results.

Earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the issue of Crimea's ownership cannot be a topic for discussion at the talks between Putin and Zelensky.

He noted that for this reason, preparations for the summit of the leaders of the two countries did not advance.

As Peskov recalled, Putin clearly confirmed his readiness for the meeting, but Moscow does not see mutual political will from Kiev.