Ushkov: Putin has never refused talks with Zelensky, this is how the assistant of the president of the Russian Federation answered the question of the journalist Pavel Zarubin whether the Russian leader would answer if Vladimir Zelensky called him. "I think he will answer, of course. Putin never refused to speak," he said in an interview. Photo: Natalia Gubernaturova.

Ushkov: Putin has never refused talks with Zelensky, this is how the assistant of the president of the Russian Federation answered the question of the journalist Pavel Zarubin whether the Russian leader would answer if Vladimir Zelensky called him. "I think he will answer, of course. Putin never refused to speak," he said in an interview. Photo: Natalia Gubernaturova.