Vladimir Socor: Kyiv airing disappointment with Western policies

By Vladimir Socor.

Published Sept. 17, 2021 at 10:49 am

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets with U.S. President Joe Biden in the Oval Office on Sept. 1, 2021.

Photo by Press Service of the President of Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is reverting to his earlier, forlorn hopes of improving relations with Russia through a personal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainian president is eager to meet Putin “any time, any place”—whether bilaterally or in the framework of a “Normandy” summit (Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France). The chief of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, is negotiating the conditions for a Zelensky-Putin meeting in either of those formats. This track ended badly for Zelensky in 2019.