Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested that his country's war against Ukraine may be nearing its end, expressing willingness to hold direct talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Moscow or a neutral country. Speaking to reporters following Moscow's Victory Day parade — the annual commemoration of the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 — Putin said Russia was open to negotiations, though he insisted any meeting with Zelenskyy should come only after the terms of a peace agreement had already been settled.