{"id":1128,"date":"2026-06-05T21:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:41:16","slug":"zelenskiys-letter-to-putin-was-intended-for-other-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskiy&#8217;s letter to Putin was intended for other ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>KYIV, June 5 (Reuters) &#8211; President Volodymyr \u200cZelenskiy&#8217;s open letter offering face-to-face peace talks to end the war in Ukraine was addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin but meant to echo through the corridors of this week&#8217;s St Petersburg investment forum, and beyond.<\/div>\n<div>Zelenskiy published the letter<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span> on Thursday evening as Putin briefed \u200bforeign news editors at Russia&#8217;s premier business event. The previous day, Ukrainian drones had hit an oil \u200bterminal in St Petersburg, sending clouds of smoke billowing into the sky near the venue.<\/div>\n<div>Ukraine \u2060believes sections of Russia&#8217;s elite &#8211; &#8220;officials, businessmen, and Russia&#8217;s partners&#8221; &#8211; want to see an end to a conflict that \u200bhas left its $3 trillion economy stagnant, according to one Ukrainian official familiar with the letter.<\/div>\n<div>The glitzy gathering has highlighted rival visions \u200bwithin Russia over the four-year-old conflict.<\/div>\n<div>While some participants have said Russia should fight on and gird for long-term confrontation with the West, others have emphasized the economic advantages of ending a war coming closer by the week.<\/div>\n<h2>UKRAINE SEEKS TO SEND SIGNAL OF CONFIDENCE<\/h2>\n<div>Zelenskiy has for \u200bmonths been repeating his call for a ceasefire and offer to meet Putin, only for Putin to dismiss \u200bthem, as he did again on Friday.<\/div>\n<div>The Ukrainian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, insisted Zelenskiy was serious about reviving negotiations.<\/div>\n<div>But Dmytro \u200cIarovyi, \u2060associate professor at the Kyiv School of Economics specialising in political psychology, said the drone strike and &#8220;performative&#8221; letter had been a concerted attempt to shape the conference&#8217;s narrative.<\/div>\n<div>He said the letter was intended to tell Russian society and Western governments &#8211; particularly U.S. President Donald Trump &#8211; that recent territorial gains and painful long-range strikes on Russia had put Kyiv \u200bin a much stronger position \u200bin any negotiations.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Trump always \u2060says &#8216;Ukraine doesn&#8217;t have any cards&#8217;,&#8221; said Kurt Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, and Ukraine envoy during Trump&#8217;s first administration. &#8220;Well, Ukraine is now showing that it&#8217;s in a \u200bstronger position.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Months of U.S.-backed peace talks have resulted in deadlock, with both sides sticking \u200bto their \u2060positions.<\/div>\n<div>Putin told the foreign editors that talks with Trump in Anchorage, Alaska, last August had already sketched out the conditions needed to bring an end to the conflict &#8211; an apparent reference to his demand that Ukraine cede the rest of \u2060Donbas, its \u200beastern industrial heartland and military bastion.<\/div>\n<div>But Zelenskiy now appears less inclined than \u200bever to yield to U.S. pressure to cede territory. His letter said he welcomed U.S. involvement but that Ukrainian issues would &#8220;not be decided \u200bin Anchorage&#8221; but by Ukraine and Russia, which could no longer expect to take all of Donbas.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1126\">SpaceX IPO running at two times oversubscribed, sources say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1123\">Exclusive: US states preparing lawsuit to block Paramount\u2019s acquisition of Warner Bros, sources say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1120\">Chip selloff erases over $1 trillion in stock market value<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr \u200cZelenskiy&#8217;s open letter offering face-to-face peace talks to end the war in Ukraine was addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin but meant to echo through the corridors of this week&#8217;s St Petersburg investment forum, and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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