Russian President Putin says that the West would use a Swiss-hosted conference on the war, due to take place next month, to endorse Zelenskyy's legitimacy but these are 'PR steps' with no legal meaning.
Russia n President Putin says that the West would use a Swiss-hosted conference on the war, due to take place next month, to endorse Zelenskyy's legitimacy but these are "PR steps" with no legal meaning. Russia n President Vladimir Putin has said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had no legitimacy following the expiry of his five-year term and this would raise a legal obstacle if Russia and Ukraine were to resume peace talks.
With Ukraine still under martial law in the third year of Russia's full-scale invasion, Zelenskyy has not faced elections despite the expiry of his five-year term this week - something he and Ukraine's allies deem to be the right decision to take at a time of war. "But who to negotiate with? That's not an idle question... Of course we realise the legitimacy of the incumbent head of state is over," Putin said.It should be based on draft documents that were worked out between the two sides in the early weeks of the war, and on"today's realities on the ground" - a reference to the fact that Russia controls nearly 20 percent of Ukraine.
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