Ukraine: Zelensky, Putin talks ready

(ANSA) - MOSCOW, MAY 20 - Ukrainian President VolodymyrZelensky has said he is ready for direct talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to end the war in Donbass, where the Kremlin is accused of militarily supporting separatist imilizians. "Although the public may have different views on direct negotiations between President Zelensky and President Putin, I am sure we have to do it," Zelensky said in a press conference in Kiev. "I don't mean that we have to renounce the Minsk agreements - continued the head of the Ukrainian state - but that we should do" these talks "in a separate, parallel path. Some things can be understood only when you are face to face, in order to draw definite conclusions to the 100 percent and start pursuing an upland, a plan B. " The Interfax agency reports.