Does Russia want Europe at the negotiating table? There is an answer from the Kremlin

Ushakov's fables

Yuri Ushakov spoke today about possible trilateral talks, from which he excluded European countries, at least initially, and that Putin "would take a call from Volodymyr Zelensky" because - as he emphasized - the Russian president "never refused to talk." "I think he would of course pick it up," a Kremlin adviser told the Interfax news agency.

This is another example of disinformation and propaganda narrative due to the fact that the Ukrainian president has repeatedly proposed a direct meeting or conversation, which has not yet taken place. In April 2021, even before the full-scale invasion, Zelensky invited Putin to talks in Donbas. The Kremlin then made any meeting conditional on determining its "content". As Reuters reminds, after Russia's full-scale attack, Zelensky repeated his appeal, among others. in March 2022, and in May 2025 he called on Putin to meet in Istanbul. Putin did not come, sending a delegation. Even later, Zelensky several times suggested that Putin meet him in Konstantynówka - a city that the Russian pro-aganda forces declared had been conquered. In June this year, Zelensky wrote an open letter to Putin, which also included a declaration of willingness to talk in any form. This also remained unanswered.

Energetic clinch

Russia and Ukraine exchange blows, hitting energy facilities. Russia also regularly carries out air attacks on civilians. Ukraine wants to weaken the source of financing for the Russian war machine.

Today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that on the night from Saturday to Sunday, Russia bombed the energy infrastructure in four Ukrainian regions, as a result of which hundreds of thousands of customers were deprived of electricity.

The intensity of the attacks is very high, and the Russians are trying to make the most of the shortage of interceptors to combat ballistic missiles, Zelensky said.

In turn, the Ukrainians carried out an attack on the refinery. Ukrainska Pravda reported that the Lukoil refinery in the city of Kstovo was attacked - the fourth in Russia in terms of processing capacity, amounting to 17 million tons per year.

"There was a massive drone attack in the Nizhny Novgorod region at night and in the morning, over a hundred drones were destroyed," wrote the governor of the region, Gleb Nikitin, in a statement.