Ukraine's Zelenskiy to Putin: Meet me for peace talks in Donbass conflict zone

FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during a joint news briefing with Polish President Andrzej Duda (not pictured) as they meet in Kyiv, Ukraine October 12, 2020. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/Pool

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet him in the country's eastern Donbass region for talks on ending the conflict there.

"Mr Putin: I am ready to go even further and invite you to meet anywhere in the Ukrainian Donbass, where there is a war," Zelenskiy said in a video address released on the presidential website on Tuesday evening.