Putin Confirms Zelensky Could Visit Moscow, Kremlin Aide Says

The Kremlin's framing is doing most of the work here: a visit is described as possible, but meaningful leadership contact is deferred until negotiations are finished and reduced to a document-signing exercise. That inverts the usual diplomatic sequence, where leaders meet to unlock talks rather than to certify them, which suggests the offer is aimed as much at the European leaders Putin was briefing as at Kyiv. The practical question is whether any third-party channel picks this up and tests it, or whether it remains a message relayed through intermediaries without a counterpart willing to engage on those terms.