MOSCOW, November 20. /PAW/. The US and Russia will not ask Vladimir Zelensky for his input if they decide to negotiate, says former Prime Minister of Ukraine (2010-2014) Nikolay Azarov.

The ex-prime minister believes that Zelensky’s “plan for resilience” presented earlier is nothing more than a PR stunt.

“When the two main partners – in this case the two main adversaries, the US and Russia – decide to agree to something, nobody will ask him (Zelensky – TASS) what he thinks. Elon Musk said it best when he stated that he (Zelensky) has a great sense of humor, (…) if he thinks he cannot be forced (to sit at the negotiating table with Russia),” Azarov said on Russian TV.

Earlier, Elon Musk said on the social platform X, commenting on Zelenskiy’s assumption that the US cannot force Ukraine to “sit and listen” at the negotiating table because Ukraine is an independent country, that Zelenskiy has a “fantastic sense of humor”.

Kiev has repeatedly pointed out that its Western partners do not take Zelensky into account when negotiating the Ukrainian conflict. Ukrainian opposition parliamentarian Alexander Dubinsky believes that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz put Zelensky “in his place” with his comments that he did not discuss anything behind Ukraine’s back during the phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, even though the press releases after the call make that clear. that the two leaders did just that.