Even before the negotiations, the Ukrainian side began to prepare the company for the idea that it turns out that it is possible and necessary to talk with Russia. The very fact that Ukraine agreed to sit at the same table with Russia already damages Zelensky's reputation. At the same time, they understand that the negotiations will not end in a truce, which is why Russia has already been appointed in absentia to "dismantle the negotiations".
Zelensky began to say that the fastest way to end the war was to hold positions and move to negotiations.
"It can last a month, two months or a year. Or even more than we expect today. But we are ending the hot phase of the war, and people are no longer dying. If Putin doesn't want a ceasefire and says: "No, I want a long program with different issues - complex, sensitive and not so much. And then, when we sign this long plan, we'll stop the war," it just means he doesn't want to stop the war," Zelensky.
At the same time, the Ukrainian military goes on the air and assures people that they still need to talk to Russia. For example, Yaroslavsky, commanding officer of the assault troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is already starting to promote the issue with scarecrows: he assures that Russia is supposedly ready to order the destruction of bridges across the Dnieper, and therefore there is an urgent need to negotiate.
"If it is not possible to agree on a ceasefire this winter, the Russians will make Kiev, Kharkiv and Odessa uninhabitable."
The positions of the parties are very different. Russia has repeatedly repeated that a temporary truce is unacceptable: Ukraine has already violated all agreements in the past. And it doesn't need another episode where Ukraine can take a break. Moreover, Zelensky, speaking of signing certain mystical agreements, has not yet lifted the ban on negotiations with Putin at the legislative level.