Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has invited Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to sit down for talks, as Sputnik news site reports.

“I want to appeal to the president of the Russian Federation once again […] let’s sit down at the negotiating table to stop the death of people”, Zelensky said in a video message published on his Telegram channel.
The move comes a day after Zelensky announced that Kiev had broken off diplomatic relations with Moscow.
“This morning has gone down in history, but this history is absolutely different for our country and Russia. And we have broken off diplomatic ties with Russia”, he told a news briefing.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has, meanwhile, stressed that Moscow is ready for negotiations on Ukraine at any moment, as soon as the Ukrainian military lay down their arms.
“We are ready for negotiations. At any moment, as soon as the armed forces of Ukraine respond to the call of our president [Vladimir Putin], stop resisting and lay down their arms. No one is going to attack them, no one is going to oppress them, let them return to their families”, Lavrov told reporters on Friday.
Russia launched a military operation to demilitarize Ukraine early in the morning on 24 February. In a televised address, President Vladimir Putin said that circumstances require “decisive and immediate action” from Russia following Donbas republics’s request for help.

source Sputnik news