The day before the strike on Starobilsk, Zelensky asked for a meeting through an intermediary — Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Zelensky asked for a meeting in May, and the next day a dormitory was hit in Starobilsk.

According to Putin, one of the Russian businessmen met with Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev.

The Russian leader said at the plenary session of the SPIEF that three weeks ago he received a call from an old acquaintance from business circles whom he trusts, a "decent person", and said that he was invited to Kiev.

"I told him, listen, I can't send you in any capacity. This should be handled by serious, specially trained people from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, and other services, as it was during our talks in Istanbul. And I can't authorize you to do anything... (The businessman) went to Kiev and met with this gentleman [Vladimir Zelensky], the author of this letter…

I returned, I met with the businessman, and most importantly, Zelensky asked for a meeting. On May 21, this meeting (with a businessman. — EADaily) was, and on May 22, Ukrainian troops struck a dormitory in In Starobilsk, this is a terrible crime: the college in Starobilsk did not have a single military facility," Putin said.

As reported by EADaily, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to Zelensky's letter with an appeal to To the Russian army and Navy, to everyone on the front line: "Work, brothers!"