The US president, Donald Trumphe said Thursday that there will be no progress in the potential conversations in Turkey between Russia and Ukraine to find a solution to war until he and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, are in person.
“Look, nothing will happen until Putin and I gathered, agree?” “He did not even verify” who would be in charge of the Russian delegation in Türkiye.
In this sense, he assured that Putin “obviously” was going to go to the appointment if Trump himself appeared: “He was not going to go if I was not going,” he says. Previously, the president of the United States announced that they will not go to these conversations, which are expected to begin this afternoon. “I don’t think anything is going to happen, they like it or not, until he and I meet. But we will have to organize it because they are dying too many people,” he settled.
Russia and the United States have already prepared their delegations to participate in Istanbul in direct negotiations With the Ukrainian authorities to seek a negotiated exit to the war caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as the Turkish government has announced on Thursday.
Ankara has not confirmed the participation of Turkish mediators in the Russian-Ukrainian meeting, the first since 2022, which in theory must start this afternoon in Istanbul.
For his part, the Ukrainian President, Volodímir Zelenskihe is in Ankara, where he maintains from noon an encounter with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and is waiting for reporting on Ukrainian participation in the meeting planned in Istanbul. The Kremlin has already confirmed that Putin has no plans to travel to Istanbul, but his possible trip to Türkiye will depend on the result of those contacts.
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