Whether Putin will go to negotiations, the media source did not report.
The media notes that negotiations and the promises of the Kremlin of a truce allowed the head of the Kremlin to win a few more days of time, postponing the West pressure on the new package of sanctions. It is noted that his initiative also destroyed the temporary unity of Europe and the United States, which had developed after a joint statement of the unconditional ceasefire.
Meanwhile, Putin’s speaker Dmitry Peskov told the Russian propagandist Pavel Zarubin that the delegation of the Russian Federation “will be on May 15 in Istanbul and will wait for the Ukrainian side there.”
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On the night of May 11, Putin invited Ukraine to resume direct negotiations ” without preliminary conditions “ In Istanbul on May 15.
President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky said that Ukraine is waiting for confirmation of the ceasefire from Russia from May 12 and is ready to meet for peace negotiations, as well as what will wait for Putin on May 15 in Turkey personally.
On May 11, the special representative of the US President Donald Trump on Ukraine Kit Kellog noted that for negotiations about the world in Ukraine it is necessary to first achieve a ceasefire, and not vice versa.
On May 12, Peskov said that “Putin clearly and unequivocally outlined the position of resuming negotiations with Ukraine without preliminary conditions” and that Russia is supposedly “tuned to a serious search for ways of long -term settlement of the war.” But, in essence, he did not answer whether Putin is going to negotiate in Turkey. Zelensky called the “very strange” silence of Moscow about a meeting in Turkey for negotiations about the world.
On the same day, in the report of the American Institute for the Study of War, they said that Russian officials probably create conditions for Putin so that he could reject Zelensky’s invitation to meet on May 15 in Istanbul.
On May 13, Trump said that in probable negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation there will be an American delegation, including US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
On the same day, Reuters, with reference to three sources familiarized with plans, wrote that the special representatives of Trump on the issues of Russia and Ukraine Steve Vitkoff and Keith Kelloglog would also go to the likely negotiations on Thursday. The latter also He stated that Trump could come to negotiations in Turkey if Putin will still be on them.
