{"id":23689,"date":"2026-06-05T12:22:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/zelensky-asks-putin-to-meet-face-to-face-with-us-fully-focused-on-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:22:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:22:04","slug":"zelensky-asks-putin-to-meet-face-to-face-with-us-fully-focused-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/zelensky-asks-putin-to-meet-face-to-face-with-us-fully-focused-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky asks Putin to meet face-to-face, with US &#8216;fully focused&#8217; on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday shared a letter asking Russian President Vladimir Putin for a face-to-face meeting while the U.S. remains &#8220;fully focused&#8221; on Iran. Zelensky told Putin that he has &#8220;spent nearly of half of your 26 years in power in Russia waging war against Ukraine.&#8221; He expands on how much Russia&#8217;s war&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5911287-zelensky-seeks-meeting-with-putin\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday shared a letter asking Russian President Vladimir Putin for a face-to-face meeting while the U.S. remains &#8220;fully focused&#8221; on Iran. Zelensky told Putin that he has &#8220;spent nearly of half of your 26 years in power in Russia waging war against Ukraine.&#8221; He expands on how much Russia&#8217;s war&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}