Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he sent a team led by defense minister in Istanbul on Thursday first direct peace talks Full-scale occupation in 2022 since the Russian delegation since the first week of Moscow.
Zelenskyy, Russian President Vladimir Putin moved after his face to face in Turkey, which was offered by the Ukrainian leader in the flicker of the diplomatic maneuvers last weekend.
Zelenskyy, in a press conference in Ankara, the Turkish capital, Ankara does not include “anyone in fact deciding”, Moscow does not strictly not to complete the war.
However, he said that the US President will demonstrate to Donald Trump, for the first direct conversation of the Istanbul to Istanbul, Istanbul since Istanbul (almost 300 miles), for its first direct conversation since the first direct occupation of the previous month.
According to him, Defense Minister of Ukraine Rustam Umerov will be headed by Rustam Umerov and the goal “the first steps to end the war, the ceasefire.”
The lack of Putin was pushed by Western European leaders who maneuvered the expectations of a progress in recent months in recent months in recent months. He also removed the prospects of intensive international sanctions against Russia threatened by the West.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Zelenskyy in the presidential palace in Ankara before two talks.
“Now, after a three-year major suffering, he finally has a window of opportunity,” he said. “Negotiations … I hope it can open a new chapter.”
The war has killed tens of thousands of soldiers from both sides and more than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians and continues on the front line of about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles). Russian forces are preparing a fresh military attack, say the Ukrainian government and Western military analysts.
Break the national news
News affecting people in Canada and around the world, register for warning signals that are delivered directly to you.
At least five civilians were killed and 29 were injured in the last day, the Russian army is trying to advance due to the authorities of the Russian army in five eastern region.
A weekend of diplomatic maneuver
Diplomatic maneuver, European leaders in the weekend, when he met Zelenskyy in Kiev and called for a 30-day ceasefire, as the first step against peace. Putin then responded to Ukraine in Istanbul and responded to Ukraine. Then Zelenskyy was called to Putin for face-to-face talks.
After the day of the day, Kremlin finally said on Thursday, Speaker Dmitry Peskov and Putin did not plan to travel to Istanbul in the coming days.
Trump, Putin said he was not surprised because there was no show. Trump to meet for Putin and Zelenskyy, but brushed a decision open to not participate in Putin.
“If I’m not there, I did not think that Putin was possible,” said Trump journalists in Doha, Qatar, in Qatar, on the third day of his visit to the Middle East.
Trump said that a meeting between him and Putin was very important to violate the difficulty.
“I don’t believe you don’t want something or not wanting, (Putin) and you will not come together.” “But we will have to solve it because many people die.”
Peskov, Putin said there were no plans to meet with Trump in the coming days.
Vladimir Medinsky, who helped Putin, said he was headed by the Russian team, which will be included in the other three senior officials. Putin also appointed four lower-level officials as “specialists” for the talks in Istanbul.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, both represented Russia in Saudi Arabia in Saudi Arabia.
Ukrainian delegation Defense Minister Rustam Yoverov, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Ukrainian President Andriy Yumbak, was also included. Zelenskyy, only the seat on the negotiating table with Putin, said the President’s Advisor Myxailo Podolyak said.
Information on whether the Ukrainian delegation can meet with his Russian counterparts and was not known. Russia said the talks were postponed “on the initiative of the Turkish side” in the afternoon
Tass, the talks will take place in Istanbul, Bosphorus, he said.
Peskov said they were preparing to meet with government officials and members of the delegation on Tuesday. Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, Chief of General Staff Valeri Gerasimov and Secretary of the National Security Council Sergei Shoigu also attended.
Russia calls negotiations ‘restart’
The Kremlin talks on Thursday talks in 2022 as “restarting” in Istanbul, but quickly left each other. Moscow said they wanted to continue fighting Ukraine and Western, said that Kiev organized an ultimatum instead of something that Russia could agree on both sides.
Russia later led the delegation Medinsky.
Putin’s proposal, more than three months diplomacy, he came to the vast war with more than three months of diplomacy, which began during the campaign. In recent weeks, the Trump management said he could go away from peace efforts, if there was no progress in the near future.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiha, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Senator Lindsey Graham met with Lindsey Graham, who hosted NATO Foreign Ministers in the Antalya House, because the United States includes new defense goals.
Sybiha once again approved the support of Trump’s mediation efforts to Trump and called for his sustainable participation, Moscow called for peace “Ukraine’s constructive steps”. “So far, this is not,” he said.
On Thursday morning, Sybiha and other European foreign ministers, including French counterpart Jean-Noël Barrot, a post of a post in a post in a post, reiterated the threat of the “mass sanctions”.
“We are now in a very difficult place and we hope that the end of this war will be negotiating and preventing any war in the future and prevent any war in the future,” said Rubio Thursday.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Putin accused the “peaceful way.”
“There was only one country that started this conflict. It was Russia. It was Putin. There is only one country peacefully, that is, Russia is Russia.”
Barrot reflected this feeling: “Ukrainians have a vacant chair in front of the Ukrainians, one was to occupy Vladimir Putin,” he said. “Vladimir Putin drives his feet and does not want to enter this peace discussion in all the evidence.”
–Associated Press writers Lorne chefs in Brussels; Illia Novikov and Samya Kullab in Kiev, Ukraine; Dasha Litvinova in Tallin, Estonia; Matthew Lee in Antalya, Turkey contributed to this report.
