Overview

• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said every country proposed by Ukraine for a Zelensky–Putin meeting is unacceptable to Moscow, citing Switzerland and Austria as no longer neutral from Russia’s perspective.
• Peskov accused Kyiv of a passive stance on negotiations and warned that battlefield dynamics would worsen the position of those who delay talks.
• Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev offered Kazakhstan as a venue if both sides agree, while stressing his country is not a mediator and that expert groundwork and a truce are needed for any practical outcome.
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterated he would meet Vladimir Putin anywhere except in Russia, naming options such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Austria, Switzerland and Kazakhstan.
• Russian statements indicate Putin does not intend to travel for talks and is open to a meeting in Moscow, a proposal Ukraine has called unacceptable.