Former head of the Ukrainian SBU asks Zelensky to meet V. Putin

The former head of the SBU, Major General Vasily Vovk, gave Ukraine‘s leader Volodymyr Zelensky original advice on the air of the Nash TV channel.

The general is convinced that the Russian leader will agree to meet with Zelensky if Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba is dismissed.

Moreover, he believes that Zelenski should send negotiators to Donbas.

“When can I go to negotiations and when will Putin accept Zelensky. The first is to fire Kuleba.

The second is to change the rhetoric.

Every time we hear a filling in the direction of Russia, we say: we want to meet,” Vovk said.

The General believes that the authorities in Luhansk and Donetsk should be recognised as incapable of negotiating:

“Formal action: I went, I talked, I took a picture with them. He came with a certificate, he wrote: “There‘s no one to talk to, they‘re done,” the general said.

After that, according to Vovk, one can call Putin and declare the presence of a “certificate of meeting” with representatives of the DPR and LPR.

“There are three or four million people there, are they all terrorists?

We have a law to hold elections, but we don‘t know how to carry it out – let‘s talk.

Then, I think, Putin will accept or meet with him elsewhere,” the former head of the SBU Investigations Department concluded, RIA Novosti reports.

Zelensky has repeatedly expressed his readiness to have a personal meeting with the Russian leader. The impulsiveness of Zelenski‘s proposals has become the joke on social media.

The Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov noted earlier that Moscow had not received specific proposals from Kiev for a meeting between the leaders of the two countries and there was no clarity on the issue of possible negotiations.

Since 2014, the Ukrainian Army has been fighting Russian-speaking separatists in the eastern part of the region, in the Donbass, Lugansk and Donetsk regions.