What was outlined as a new attempt to resume the dialogue between Ukraine and Russia, in Türkiye, has become tangled up by a document that has served both parties to shoot a new crossing of accusations. The meeting, if it comes to realize, is scheduled for June 2, in Istanbul, where the possible road map to a fire should be put on the table. However, Kremlin refuses to deliver the advance of the text with its proposals, something they demand from kyiv to send a delegation. That meeting even had the explicit support of the White House. “That writing that they speak so much and that they supposedly have preparing more than a week, still does not appear,” said Volodimir Zelenski.
The pressure is increasing and, while Moscow hurries the deadlines to send the draft, which should reactivate the negotiating table and open the door to a high fire in Ukraine, the memory of the agreement that allowed the exchange of a thousand prisoners of war a few weeks ago, remains very present. It was a tangible agreement, and kyiv wants the next step in the negotiation to go in that same direction. However, before this document comes to see the light, the Kremlin has already begun to mark territory, insisting that everything is discussed behind closed doors. “We will not publicly discuss the content of these conversations,” said Vladimir Putin’s government spokesman, Dimitri Peskov. A requirement that clashes from the front with the Ukrainian position, which claims clarity, guarantees and a negotiation that does not remain in wet paper again.
The head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andrei Yermak, has reiterated that “Ukraine is willing to attend the next meeting, but we want to establish a constructive dialogue.” To do this, he has stressed, it is essential to receive the Russian proposals in advance to negotiate the fire. “There is enough time: four days are enough to prepare and send the documents,” he has slipped. In addition to claiming clarity about the content of that draft, Yermak has also asked to know in advance the composition of the Russian delegation, and at the same time, has transferred kyiv’s position to the special envoy of the United States, diplomat Steve Witkoff. “It is important that both the US and Europe are represented at the table,” he said.
In addition, much earlier, the president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, has returned to doubt the real will of the Kremlin to sign a temporary truce. “Moscow’s words are not worth,” he said in his daily speech. The Ukrainian president, in addition, has assured that neither European partners nor the main mediators have had access to the alleged draft of Russia. “They have not even sent it to our partners, or Turkey, who welcomes the meeting, or the United States, who was the first to ask for it,” he denounced.
Diplomatic crossing at the UN
The tension between the Kremlin and kyiv has also been projected this Wednesday on the UN Security Council, where the Russian ambassador, Vasili Nebenzia, has accused Ukraine of trying to “deceive and dislodge” the US president Donald Trump, “which is taking decisive steps, at any price, towards peace,” he said during his speech of the monograph of Ukrainian soil. Nebenzia, in his speech, has also pointed out that the United States “has lost billions of dollars helping Ukraine” and that, now, kyiv tries to drag Washington towards an “anti -ruse and rusophobic posture.”
Nebenzia has focused a good part of her speech on attacking several European countries. Specifically, he has summoned the United Kingdom, to France and Germany, which he has faced with the supposed constructive attitude of the United States. And, without referring directly to the latest warnings that Donald Trump has launched to Russia, it has made it clear that Moscow will reject any external pressure: “Neither new anti -Russian sanctions, nor the sending of weapons to Ukraine, nor any other hostile step against Russia will avoid the military defeat of the Zelenski regime,” said the Russian diplomat.
For his part, the United States representative before the UN Council, John Kelley, has shown that “if Russia decides to continue a war that is a great catastrophe, USA will have to consider her negotiating efforts to end this conflict” and also reminded the Russian delegation that the “new sanctions for Russia” proposed by Donald Trump, “are on the table.”
In the same session, the UN Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs, Rosemary Dicar it, has warned that the situation on the battlefield has deteriorated “worryingly” in the almost six months of 2025. Dicar it has stood out as a relevant fact that, the deaths of civilians during the first quarter of this year have increased 59% compared to the same period of the previous year.
Trump raises the pressure on Putin
From Washington, the White House has reiterated that it will contribute to support the new negotiating process with Ukraine that Russia has proposed, although skepticism begins to penetrate in the US administration as a result of the lack of progress to put an end, even temporarily, to war in Ukraine and the opacity of the Kremlin. The spokeswoman for the US presidency, Karoline Leavitt, recalled that “President Trump has encouraged and urged both parties to hold the meeting” and has shown confidence that he becomes held. “We hope that next week this advances,” he said, although with little conviction.
The way in which Trump is a vladimir Putin, meanwhile, has reduced the tone several integers after he has hardened in recent weeks, especially after the failure on May 16 of the first summit in Istanbul. In that attempt, which was responsible for frustrating the convening country, Russia, sending a very low profile delegation, thus breaking the expectations of a face to face between the Russian president and his Ukrainian counterpart to negotiate the truce.
From that moment, Donald Trump’s patience seems to have been exhausted. “We are going to know if it is dizzy or not and, if so, we will act in another way,” said the US president in an appearance in the oval office where he has also warned that “in two weeks” he will know if Putin has the real intention of for war. Although he has not given details about the possible reprisals he used to press the Kremlin, he has recognized that imposing new sanctions could “ruin” a possible way of agreement. In any case, he has launched a warning: “He is playing with fire.”
