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Kremlin tells Zelensky to visit Moscow for Putin meeting

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov reiterates Putin's prior offer for a meeting in the Russian capital.

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Kremlin tells Zelensky to visit Moscow for Putin meeting

What this story says

  • Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky can come to Moscow if he wants to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin.
  • Peskov reiterated that Putin had previously stated Zelensky could fly to Moscow.
  • Zelensky had expressed readiness to meet Putin at the G20 summit in Miami.
  • The G20 summit is scheduled for December 14-15 in Miami, with Putin's attendance unconfirmed.

Who covered it

Left 29%(6)Centre 28%(6)Right 43%(9)

Percentages are shares of the 21 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 54 of the 75 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

59/100

Hype

41/100

75 sources · methodology

Missing from the left

Only 6 of the 21 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

A reader who follows the left would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky can travel to Moscow if he wishes to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Peskov reiterated a previous offer from Putin that Zelensky could fly to Moscow. Zelensky had said in an interview with DW that he was ready to meet Putin at the G20 summit in Miami, should the Russian president attend. The G20 summit is scheduled to take place in Miami on December 14-15. Putin's participation in the summit has not yet been confirmed.

Disagreement on Zelensky's location for interview

EADaily reported that Zelensky made his statement about meeting Putin at the G20 summit in Miami while at a Canadian military base in North Bay. None of the other reports mention the location of Zelensky's interview.

What the coverage left out

None of the left-rated digests mention the location of Zelensky's interview as a Canadian military base, a detail reported by the right-rated outlet EADaily. No centre-rated outlet ran this story.

Coverage settled. We checked this 16 times and stopped on 17 Sept 2026, 21:45. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

6 rated outlets

  • The left-rated report from unn.ua led with Peskov inviting Zelensky to Moscow instead of meeting at the G20 in Miami. It stated that if Zelensky truly wants to meet Putin, Putin had previously said he could fly to Moscow. The report also included Zelensky's quote about being ready to come to the G20 summit in Miami if Putin attended, and that the outcome of the meeting was important. It noted that Putin's participation in the summit was not yet confirmed.

Centre

6 rated outlets

We have not written our reading of the centre coverage of this story. The centre-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.

Right

9 rated outlets

  • The right-rated reports from EADaily, vz.ru, news-pravda.com, topwar.ru, and Interfax.ru all focused on the Kremlin's response to Zelensky's desire to meet Putin. They highlighted Peskov's statement that Zelensky could come to Moscow, with several mentioning that the invitation remains valid or that Putin had previously said this. EADaily reported that Zelensky made his statement from a Canadian military base. vz.ru and Interfax.ru mentioned that Peskov commented on Zelensky's announcement of willingness to meet Putin at the G20 summit in Miami. topwar.ru used the headline 'If Zelena Wants to Negotiate, He Can Come to Moscow'.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Kremlin tells Zelensky to visit Moscow for Putin meeting?
Of the 21 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 29% are rated left, 28% are rated centre, 43% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 75. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Kremlin tells Zelensky to visit Moscow for Putin meeting left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 21 rated outlets on this story, 29% are rated left, 28% are rated centre, 43% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Kremlin tells Zelensky to visit Moscow for Putin meeting biased?
Kremlin tells Zelensky to visit Moscow for Putin meeting is one event reported by 75 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Kremlin tells Zelensky to visit Moscow for Putin meeting?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Kremlin tells Zelensky to visit Moscow for Putin meeting?
75 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What did the Kremlin say about a meeting between Zelensky and Putin?
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky truly wishes to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he can come to Moscow. Peskov reiterated a prior offer from Putin that Zelensky could fly to the Russian capital.
Where did Zelensky suggest meeting Putin?
In an interview with DW, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his readiness to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit scheduled to take place in Miami. Putin's attendance at the summit has not yet been confirmed.
Has Putin's participation in the G20 summit been confirmed?
No, Putin's participation in the G20 summit, scheduled for December 14-15 in Miami, has not yet been confirmed by the reports.

Read it at the source

75 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

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Right

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