Zelensky proposes face-to-face meeting with Putin
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Volodymyr Zelensky has written to Vladimir Putin inviting him to a face-to-face meeting with the aim of negotiating an end to their war. In an open letter to the Russian leader, the Ukrainian President said it would be "wrong to simply wait" until the war in Europe becomes the focus of the US's attention once again.
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Credit: Photo by SERGEY DOLZHENKO/EPA/Shutterstock (16910105s) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Rutte in Kyiv, Ukraine, 03 June 2026. Rutte arrived in Kyiv to meet with top Ukrainian officials amid the Russian invasion. NATO Secretary General Rutte visits Kyiv, Ukraine - 03 Jun 2026
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| 0:30.0 | I'm Will Chalk, and in the early hours of Friday the 5th of June, these are our main stories. |
| 0:36.3 | Ukraine's President Zelenskyky has written to Vladimir Putin, |
| 0:39.7 | inviting him to a face-to-face meeting to negotiate an end to their war. President Trump says |
| 0:46.0 | he's spoken directly to the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah, officially designated in the US as a |
| 0:51.7 | foreign terrorist organization, about a possible end to fighting in Lebanon. |
| 0:57.0 | A year on from one of the world's deadliest air disasters, grieving families tell the BBC |
| 1:02.0 | their compensation is not being handled fairly by Air India. |
| 1:08.8 | Also in this podcast. |
| 1:10.9 | How he would have crossed the Canvoo Icefall with no ladders, beggars belief. |
| 1:16.2 | That takes it from a sort of utterly brutal ninja feat of endurance |
| 1:21.3 | to just something else just incredible. |
| 1:24.6 | Yeah, an amazing story. |
| 1:26.2 | The Napoli climbing guide thought to have died on Everest last week, |
| 1:30.8 | reaches base camp alive after six days exposed on the mountain. |
| 1:40.6 | So we start with an open letter to President Putin. It's over 1,800 words long. |
| 1:46.8 | And in it, President Zelensky invites the Russian leader to a face-to-face meeting in a renewed bid to try and end the war. |
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