Istanbul – Diplomatic Frenz on Friday, Friday Friday, swallowed Istanbul Dolmabahçe, because Russia and Ukraine sat in order to maintain their first direct peacekeeping agencies since the early months of this three-year war.
In the middle of several times, variable plans, diplomats from Russia, Ukraine, the United States, Britain, and who could be a historical moment – or who could be a historical moment – or who could be a historical moment – or who might be historical moment – or who might be historical moment – or by indenting anti-Climax.
Discussions – who led the parties sitting around a large, in shape of a letter in – wrapped after about two hours.
Before the talks started, President Donald Trump predicted that there would be no progress if he was not included in and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I don’t believe anything happens if you like it or not, until we gather,” Trump told his Russian colleague while talking to reporters on Thursday for Aeronian Dabia. “But we’re going to have to solve it because too many people die.”
Trump said on Thursday that he wanted to meet with a colleague of Kremlin “as soon as we can ask it.” He asked what stood on the road, Putin spokesman Dmitry Sands said on Friday that “such a meeting must be needed”, but that he must first be “expert negotiations, consultations and long, intensively preparation.”
Putin refused to be part of the Russian delegation – a reduced mission that made Ukrainian and American envoys traveling here.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pointed out that the Russian team does not contain “anyone who actually makes decisions.” His own emissare led the Minister of Defense Rustem Moderners.
“We are ready for full and unconditional ceasefire,” the Moderner said in Friday statement, adding that “peace is possible only if Russia showed a willingness for concrete actions.”
Lopteded Feace-Faceop Secretary of the State Marco Rubio who arrived in the palace despite the non-presentation from the Russian colleague, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sergei Lavrov. Trump’s envoy of Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, could not hide his anger and looked furious as officials hugged about this Orsi about this Ottoman-era.
Russia denied charges of sending a weakened list.
“Our official delegation was approved by the Presidential Regulation and has all the necessary competencies and the powers for the implementation of negotiations,” the head of his delegation, Vladimir Medinski, told the Russian Consulate in Istanbul on Thursday.
It was the first meeting face to the face of Russia and Ukraine from failed conversations from 2022. April, two months after Russia drew their tanks across the border.
Today, the bay between the two sides remains wide as the Bosporsus held by Istanbul in two.
Russian officials say they see conversations as a chance to restart what they call “peace talks”. In reality, their conditions for peace – stopping the war Russia began with the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. – are Tantamount in Ukrainian tradition. Kyiv said that they would never accept these conditions, which include agreement to never join NATO and agree with constant “neutral” between Moscow and West.
The NBC news on Thursday asked the Russian team whether Putin is ready to compromise – there was no answer.
Ukraine wants a 30-term fire instead as a basis for building future diplomatic victories. His European supporters say that they will hit Russia with further sanctions if it disagrees. Although they are often accused of being far softer in Russia than in Ukraine, Trump also suggested that he can guess the paths with sanctions if enough progress.
Talks in Istanbul wipe with “smoke and mirrors,” Jonathan Ekal, the International Director at the United Kingdom Institute, London Think Tank.
“These are not negotiations between the two sides willing to explore the actual recirccilty fire,” he said. Instead, the parties are “trying to capture a public narrative about who is an obstacle to these discussions – and avoid the wrath and anger of President Trump.”
Eyal negotiations about “playing music chairs – when the music stops, who remains standing?” That means: “When Mr. Trump finally loses patience, who blames for failure to achieve a truce? It’s the whole game.”
Friday began with a meeting between officials from Ukraine, the USA, Britain, Germany and France. These sides “coordinated our positions” in front of a key meeting with Russia set for later, the artistic said.
While officials talked in Turkey, through the Black Sea, Violence continued in Ukraine.
Russia shot 112 drones in Kiev, Odes, Žitomir, Cherniiv and Mykolaiv, according to Ukrainian air force. Most of them were shot, but a small number passed and caused indefinite damage, it was said.
Keir Simmons reported from Istanbul and Aleksandar Smith from London.
2025-05-16 11:02:00
