Zelensky, dragged into Trump impeachment drama, faces a tougher challenge: Putin

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Zelensky, dragged into Trump impeachment drama, faces a tougher challenge: Putin
By Sabra Ayres  Moscow Correspondent
Dec. 7, 2019   10:08 AM
MOSCOW —

Volodymyr Zelensky looked up from his treadmill and addressed the people of Ukraine.

“Some say that it’s impossible to have a dialogue with Putin,” he said, “but without dialogue it’s like we’re on a treadmill — we are running forward, but not moving.”

Days before his first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine’s president promised his war-battered nation of 43 million that he would not betray them to the enemy.

Read more at: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-12-07/ukrainian-president-to-meet-putin-in-peace-talks

Putin vs Zelensky: two very different presidents face off
[AFP]Michael MAINVILLE     ,AFP•December 7, 2019

Moscow (AFP) - When Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky meet on Monday it will be an encounter between two very different presidents -- one an establishment strongman with years of experience, the other a neophyte rebel learning the ropes.

The Russian and Ukrainian presidents will be holding their first face-to-face talks in Paris at a summit with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

For Putin, it will be a chance to take further steps to reduce Russia's isolation over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and backing for eastern Ukrainian separatists.

Read more at: https://news.yahoo.com/putin-vs-zelensky-two-very-different-presidents-face-022203412.html