In Kyiv, they announced a request to Scholz to help organize a meeting between Putin and Zelensky

According to Zhovkva, "the only serious negotiations" between Ukraine and Russia "would be possible at the presidential level."

He claims that Zelensky is ready for this.

Zhovkva added that "international partners should help organize such a meeting."

“We are talking with the German Chancellor to organize such a meeting,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that on the sidelines of the diplomatic forum in Antalya, it is planned to contact the Foreign Ministers of Russia and Ukraine Sergey Lavrov and Dmitry Kuleba.