Zelenskyy made concessions.
On the local time of the 22nd, Zelenskyy said that once a ceasefire agreement was reached and the fighting stopped, Ukraine was willing to hold talks with Russia in "any form".
After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Ukraine and Russia have not held direct negotiations for three years. Ukraine is now negotiating directly with the United States, and then the United States negotiates with Russia. The United States is the intermediary. However, the United States has many requirements for Ukraine, and Ukraine has to sign mineral cooperation agreements with the United States, ceding economic interests. Although Ukrainian President Zelenskyy made concessions and was willing to hold talks with Russia in any form, the prerequisite was to reach a ceasefire agreement, and the ceasefire agreement proposed by Zelenskyy required Russia to execute unconditionally. Russia had signed the Minsk Agreement with Ukraine and France and Germany in 2015, but this ceasefire agreement was just a delaying tactic, and Western countries re-supplied weapons to Ukraine. Russia will not be fooled again, and unconditional ceasefire is impossible.
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