Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invited russian businessman Roman Abramovich to Kyiv to convey a message to russian dictator vladimir putin regarding peace talks. The Financial Times reported this on Sunday, June 7, citing four sources.
According to the publication, Zelenskyy invited Abramovich last month, in May, to convey a message to the russian dictator regarding his willingness to hold a bilateral meeting with him.
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invited former Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich to Kyiv last month in a failed attempt to convince Vladimir Putin to hold direct peace talks, according to four people familiar with the matter. Zelenskyy asked Abramovich to pass on a message to the Russian president that he was prepared to meet for what would have been their first bilateral summit more than four years into Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the people said. Ukraine wanted to demonstrate its seriousness about holding direct peace talks with Russia, even as the US, which has sought to broker a ceasefire, is distracted by the war in the Middle East," the sources noted.
The FT noted that Abramovich had served as a mediator in negotiations between the aggressor country, russia, and Ukraine from the first weeks of the full-scale war in 2022, and also helped broker an agreement to ensure the export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea later that year.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on June 6, MP Oleksii Honcharenko stated that on May 21, russian oligarch Roman Abramovich visited Kyiv to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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