{"id":28313,"date":"2026-11-01T17:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=28313"},"modified":"2026-11-01T17:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:13:44","slug":"putin-has-never-refused-to-speak-with-zelensky-kremlin-aide-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=28313","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Putin Has Never Refused to Speak With Zelensky, Kremlin Aide Says<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dragon Media News Desk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has never refused to speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov has said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether Putin would answer the phone if Zelensky called, Ushakov told Vesti reporter Pavel Zarubin: \u201cI think he would answer, of course. Putin has never refused to talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ushakov added that Zelensky was welcome to visit Moscow if he wanted to meet Putin in person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is sending signals through various channels. 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Asked whether Putin would answer the phone if Zelensky called, Ushakov told Vesti reporter Pavel Zarubin: \u201cI think he would answer, of course. Putin has never refused to talk.\u201d Ushakov added &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,165,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-eu-us","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Putin Has Never Refused to Speak With Zelensky, Kremlin Aide Says - Dragon Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin has never refused to speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov has said.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=28313\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Putin Has Never Refused to Speak With Zelensky, Kremlin Aide Says - 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