ReutersRussia and Ukraine will hang a brand new spherical of peace talks in Istanbul on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated.
“As of late, I mentioned with (Ukrainian Safety Council leader) Rustem Umerov the arrangements for a prisoner alternate and every other assembly in Turkey with the Russian facet,” Zelensky stated in his day by day cope with on Monday. “Umerov reported that the assembly is scheduled for Wednesday.”
Zelensky proposed recent talks on the weekend, days after US President Donald Trump threatened Russia with “critical” sanctions if there was once no ceasefire between Moscow and Kyiv inside of 50 days.
Washington has additionally pledged new guns for the Ukrainian army, after Russia intensified assaults.
Moscow has no longer commented at the peace talks but. Russia’s RIA information company, quoting a supply, stated the talks would happen over two days, Thursday and Friday.
A Turkish executive spokesperson stated Wednesday’s talks would happen in Istanbul, the similar venue the place earlier negotiations in Might and June didn’t paintings against a ceasefire, the Agence France-Presse information company reported.
This week’s talks will likely be but every other try to deliver an finish to the battle that has been happening for greater than 3 years, and can come after Trump expressed frustration with Vladimir Putin. America president advised the BBC he was once “disillusioned” however “no longer executed” with the Russian chief.
The Istanbul talks may center of attention on additional prisoner exchanges and a conceivable assembly between Zelensky and Putin, a senior Ukrainian legitimate advised AFP.
Moscow, on the other hand, has downplayed the chance of achieving any concrete result anytime quickly.
Commenting at the potentialities for a step forward, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov advised newshounds on Monday that the 2 facets have been “diametrically adversarial” and “a large number of diplomatic paintings lies forward”.
Russia has intensified its drone and missile assaults on Ukrainian towns in fresh weeks, inflicting file civilian casualties. It introduced a full-scale invasion of its neighbour in 2022.
