Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky are likely to have a one-on-one meeting during four-way summit talks in Paris next month, the Kremlin said on Wednesday (Nov 27), CNA reports.
Putin and Zelensky plan to join French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Dec 9 for a summit aimed at resolving the five-year conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Putin's top foreign adviser Yury Ushakov said Wednesday that a separate meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders was likely on the cards, too.
"It appears that a separate meeting will be held," Ushakov said, Russian news agencies reported, while adding that the programme of the summit was still being finalised.
A Ukrainian diplomatic source, when asked about the possibility of the one-on-one, told AFP: "We still don't know."
