Ukraine and Russia will hold the first peace talks in three years

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Ukraine and Russia will be held in Istanbul to discuss the first direct peace talks by the United States and Turkey by the Brokermon broker for a 30-day unconditional ceasefire.

However, the expectations of progress are low, Kiev and Moscow, Russia’s year-round war and the most deadly confrontation in Europe since the Second World War. President Donald Trump said that in a Russian-Ukrainian Peace Agreement on Thursday, he said he saw the consequences of negotiations until the talks “in the peace agreement”.

Previous peace talks in Istanbul, in the spring of 2022, was broken after Kiev revealed the atrocities made by Moscow forces in Bucha Ukraine It was occupied by Russia in the first weeks of the occupation.

The Ukrainian delegation led by Defense Minister Rustam Umerov, President of the President Vladimir Medinsky, will meet with the Russian team led by former Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky in Istanbul. Negotiations are followed by Putin’s recent diplomatic boosts after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a filtering start to recent diplomatic boosts.

However, a possible meeting between Zelenskyy and Putin will be on the agenda of the Ukrainian delegation, said that a Ukrainian diploma in Istanbul will be a Ukrainian diplomat.

Zelenskyy met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Thursday. The Ukrainian leader was fired as the Russian delegation as a props “in the stand”, as “there would be any decision”, “Stand Details”.

Nevertheless, Zelenskyy said that the ceasefire could be obtained if Kyiv and Moscow conversions can find a little general place.

The Ukrainian official in Istanbul said the Kiev team was “ready to work.” – to achieve financial results, “he said.

“The question is whether the Russian side is ready for real steps towards peace. So far, Russia has made every effort to Ukraine.”

Zelenskyy’s Chief of Staff Andriy Yumbak, along with Ukrainian officials, the US Special Representative for Ukraine Keith Kellogg and Britain National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell met to coordinate their positions to meet with the Russian delegation. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also met with both Ukrainian counterpart Andriy Sybiha and French and German diplomatic consultants in Istanbul on Friday.

“Ukraine is ready for peace and sustainable, unconditional ceasefire. We are also ready for the highest level meetings and talks,” he said.

The head of the Russian delegation Medinsky, Thursday, said that he was “ready to work” after the initial talks with Turkish officials.

In early 2022, Medinsky, who led the Moscow delegation in Istanbul, described the team, which was negotiated, but other officials did not return Russia from maximal maximum requirements.

Crimean Tatar and experienced conversation, Yoverov also represented Kiev in the first Istanbul talks three years ago, and was part of the talks with the Russians on humanitarian issues and prisoners.

Great Turkish officials were appointed to join the Turkish-Ukrainian talks.

The American delegation was not expected to meet.

Meanwhile, sirens were stabbed in Kiev before morning because Russia has launched an attack on another missile and drone to the Ukrainian capital and other cities. The Ukrainian Air Force said that one of the F-16 fighter jets was lost during the F-16 fighter jets during the “Mission to repel the enemy air strike.”

The Great Ukrainian officials have previously stated in the financial time that Russia is moving in other places, instead of preparing peace talks, rather than the Kursk and other places, to the strategic hotspot in the battlefield.

A Ukrainian analytical group near the Defense Ministry, in recent days, especially the Russian Armed Forces, especially Pokrovsk, Toretsk and Chasiv and Chasiv and Chasiv, said he had more space in the eastern Donetsk region. The Russians have increased the pace of their attacks and the amount of the area caught in each of the last three months.

Ukraine managed to prevent a major progress along the front of 1,000 km, but struggled to stop the grinding Russians. Kiev may face a problemally challenging campaign and increasing in the United States.