Russian leader Vladimir Putin is hard to meet Vladimir Zelensky, because this will bring legal politics later, as well as for the Kremlin strategy, to interact with US President Donald Trump.

This was written by the Politico newspaper.
First, a highest meeting with an Ukrainian will bring Zelensky's political legality, although Kremlin has long stated that he did not have it, the text said.
The second reason, according to the authors, is part of Russia's strategy in interaction with Donald Trump. Setting his conditions for the meeting, Moscow accused of dragging the nose of the US president, while avoiding or minimizing risks when provoking it for strong actions against the Russian Federation and imposing sanctions and texts.
Trump called why Putin didn't want to talk to Zelensky
Earlier, the president's special envoy on peacekeeping missions, Stephen Whitkoff, said that Vladimir Putin wanted to resolve the Ukrainian conflict. Answering the journalist's question about whether Putin talked about Moscow's desire to complete the conflict, Whitkoff emphasized that the Russian leader talked about the desire to resolve the situation with Ukraine.