A Ukraine delegation arrives in Istanbul for a new meeting with Russia to negotiate peace
Russia and Ukraine celebrate on Monday in Istanbul a new meeting to try to look for a way to war. The kyiv delegation has already reached the Turkish city, as reported by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, although the match is scheduled for the afternoon. The Ukraine delegation will be led by the Minister of Defense, Rustem Uumerov. The Russian, again, by the ultra -nationalist historian and advisor to the Kremlin Vladimir Medinsky.
Both parties arrive at the appointment, after the two weeks ago that ended three years of silence, in the midst of a resurgence of the offensive, with mutual attacks of growing size in recent days. Russia launched the greatest drone attack on the entire war on Sunday, with about 500, while Ukraine threw a bold attack against Russian aviation, reaching several aerodromes with their drones and damaging or destroying several strategic bombers at points so far from Ukraine as Siberia.
The first meeting resulted in an exchange of 1,000 prisoners of war for each side, but the main objective was not achieved, ensuring a high 30 -day fire, which was what the US had proposed and that had been accepted by President Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski. However, the Russian, Vladimir Putin, with the initiative on the battlefield, resists committing. The EU accuses the Russian leader of trying to gain time while her troops advance to gain strength at the negotiating table. Moscow was committed to the first meeting to send to kyiv a document with its conditions, but has not done so.
The Russian president, Donald Trump, tries to achieve a high fire, but has already warned that, if the parties do not seriously commit to dialogue, he will abandon mediation, which since he accessed the White House in January, has always been more inclined towards Russian positions.
Trump’s envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, declared on Sunday that the two parties will present on Monday their peace conditions and that the US will be involved in the negotiation, as well as representatives of the United Kingdom, France and Germany, although it did not specify what level. (Reuters)
