Zelensky is ready to meet with Putin: why this could be a defeat for the Kremlin.

Putin and Zelensky met in person only once.

The next time they see each other, it could reveal the Russian tyrant as a fraud and a traitor in the eyes of his people.

When they first met, Zelensky was the freshly elected president of Ukraine, who rose to power with a huge victory, although he had no political experience.

Just three years after their meeting, their two countries found themselves in a full-scale war.

Putin forced to 'accept failure'

According to The Sun: Olena Lutsevych, director of the Russia and Eurasia program at Chatham House, told CNN that Putin 'will have to accept the failure of a meeting with a president he considers a joke from a non-existent country.'

Undermines the goals of Russia's wars

When the Russian despot ordered tanks to attack Kyiv in February 2022, his fictional justification was based on claims that Ukraine is a made-up country run by Nazis.

To avoid Trump's wrath in case of a disastrous meeting, Putin will want to shift the blame to Zelensky.

Controversies over the meeting place

His proposal to hold a trilateral summit in Moscow - a predictably unacceptable proposal for Ukraine - may have been calculated as a way out of the situation.

Recommendations to hold it in Budapest were criticized by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.