Zelensky had repeatedly said that he wants to meet with Putin.

But in his video call into Ukraine House Davos, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, he told me it’s becoming “more and more difficult” to entertain high-level meetings with Russia as the war drags on and Putin commits more atrocities.

What they’re saying: “It is difficult because there is the line that can hardly be crossed, after Bucha, Irpin, Mariupol and other towns and cities,” Zelensky said, referring to Russian massacres of Ukrainian civilians.

“We cannot avoid this meeting with the president of the Russian Federation, but after the atrocities that they committed, I cannot be too excited about such a meeting or meetings with the intermediaries.”