Zelenskyy, Macron and Putin, December 2019
Russian delegation has already arrived in Istanbul but without its president. Zelenskyy should meet Erdoğan and then decide what to do.
More than three years after the beginning of, Kiev e Moscow They should today relaunch, in Istanbul, Türkiye, the Direct peace conversationsthe first since the spring of 2022.
Vladimir Putin proposed conversations in Istanbul, Volodymyr Zelenskyy to be present to negotiate face to face, but Kremlin confirmed on Wednesday that not putinnor its foreign minister, Serguei Lavrov, will be present in the negotiations.
A Russian delegation Submitted by Putin already it arrived The Istambul – Without the President From Russia ,. The details about the meeting were not defined.
According to, Russia and the US have often talked in recent days. Vladimir Putin will have woke up with Donald Trump who would not To Türkiye to be in person with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The president of Russia should only sit on the table with the president of Ukraine If at this table is also the president of the USA.
The President of the United States, however, has admitted that it may come to Turkey if progress in business contacts between Russia and Ukraine are progressed.
“If anything happens, I will [à Turquia] On Friday, ”he said Donald Trump.
The US President, who has not yet commented on the absence of Putin, is at Qatar, the second stop for the visit to the Gulf countries and after the Saudi Arabia.
Thus, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, must meet Hipped with Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, And only then will decide over “Next Steps” In negotiations with Russia, he revealed a Ukrainian source.
According to a Ukrainian High employee to France Presse (AFP), Zelensky “will start the visit with Erdogan in Ankara, and only then will decide on the next steps.”
