{"id":11784,"date":"2025-05-12T01:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T21:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=11784"},"modified":"2025-05-12T01:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T21:19:58","slug":"zelensky-welcomes-putins-offer-calls-ceasefire-a-precondition-for-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/zelensky-welcomes-putins-offer-calls-ceasefire-a-precondition-for-peace-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky welcomes Putin&#8217;s offer; calls ceasefire a precondition for peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11786\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Zl-Po.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed Russia&#8217;s offer to start direct peace talks on Sunday, but stressed the need for a complete and temporary ceasefire before talks can begin.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a message posted on the social network X, Zelensky called Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s offer to start talks without a ceasefire a &#8220;positive sign&#8221; and wrote: &#8220;The world has been waiting for such a move for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed Russia&#8217;s offer to start direct peace talks on Sunday, but stressed the need for a complete and temporary ceasefire before talks can begin. In a message posted on the social network X, Zelensky called Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s offer to start talks without a ceasefire a &#8220;positive sign&#8221; and wrote: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11787,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11784\/revisions\/11787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}