The head of the White House touched on the topic of negotiations in Istanbul, speaking in Doha (Qatar).
According to him, he will arrive at a possible Russian-Ukrainian meeting “if it is appropriate.
Trump again stated that the war that the Russian Federation wages in Ukraine “should stop,” the agency notes.
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On the night of May 11, the illegitimate president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin invited Ukraine to resume direct negotiations on the war “without preliminary conditions “ In Istanbul (Türkiye) on May 15.
President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky said that Ukraine is waiting for confirmation of the ceasefire from Moscow from May 12 and is ready to meet for peace negotiations, and also what is waiting for Putin on May 15 in Turkey personally.
On May 12, the speaker of the illegitimate Russian president Dmitry 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 long -term settlement of war.” But, in fact, he did not answer whether Putin was going to negotiate in Turkey. Zelensky called the “very strange” silence of Moscow about a meeting in Turkey for negotiations about the world.
On May 13, the special representative of Trump in Ukraine and Russia Kit Kellog said that the US president could come to negotiations in Turkey if Putin is still on them. On May 14, Trump's special representative Steve Witkoff said that he and US Secretary of State Rubio They will go to Istanbul for negotiations on May 16.
On the same day in the evening, Putin approved the composition of the delegation of the Russian Federation for negotiations with Ukraine. Putin himself is not in him.
Ukraine did not officially report the composition of its delegation, but, according to NV, Together with Zelensky In Turkey, they should The head of the presidential office Andrei Ermak, Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umarov, diplomatic adviser to the president Igor Zhovkva, as well as Foreign Minister Andrei Sibiga, who was already there, was there.
