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Donald Trump has said that “nothing is happening” in the Russia-Ukraine Peace Agreement until he and Vladimir Putin met with Putin, reduce the expectation of discussion between Russian and Ukrainian ministers in Turkey.
US President’s comments threatened to overwhelm the latest peace attempts as Russian Ukrainian For the first time since 2022, the negotiators have been meeting.
“See, Putin and I am united nothing will happen until I am gathered, okay?” Trump told reporters at the Air Force One before landing in the UAE on Thursday as part of his Middle East tour. He said that if the US president was not present, Putin “clearly … was not going”.
Trump had earlier said that he was open to take a walk for discussion in Turkey, but the Russian president would not decide that he would not participate in the eleventh hour.
Trump said on Thursday, “I don’t believe that nothing will happen, whether you like it or not, until he and I am gathered.” “But we have to solve it because many people are dying.”
President Vloadimi’s Zensky said that if a technical discussion between Ukrainian and Russian negotiators in Istanbul could agree with one, a ceasefire could be a ceasefire. The goal was to “Attempt to take at least the first step towards D-Eastern, the first step towards ending the war-that is, ceasefire”.
On Thursday, Ankara traveler Jensky proposed to meet before, but only with Putin. Upon arriving in Turkey, he dismissed the Russian delegation as “stand-in props”, questioned its members’ seniority and “whether they can make a decision”.
The President of the Russian President, who was the idea of restarting the direct talks with the Ukrainian party last week, at the end of Wednesday, he confirmed that he would not be present and instead sent his short-identified adviser, former Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky, including Vladimir Medinsky.
Russia has previously sent top -level diplomats, including Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to discuss with the United States in Riyadh.
Medinsky led the Russian delegation to discuss Istanbul with Ukraine in early 2022, which made some progress before breaking down and was interested in presenting current discussions as “restart” of this discussion.
The Russian and Ukrainian delegates reached Istanbul and Ankara, without a clear indication where they would meet or what their discussion order was.
Zensky confirmed the next day that his defense minister Rusteme Urv would lead his delegation.
He called on Western allies to increase pressure on Russia, even if it was dragged his leg in unconditional ceasefire, even by applying strict sanctions.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that Putin refused to return to Istanbul, seeking “American President trying to take down the garden”.
“I’m sure the American President cannot be happy about that,” Pistorius said at a press conference in Berlin. He emphasized that if the European strategy of threatening to threaten further sanctions failed, there was a “Plan B”, but said “We cannot talk about Plan B and C publicly before the plan is clear what happened”.
The White House said earlier this week that Trump’s special envoy Steve Witcoof, Secretary of State Secretary Marco Rubio and Ukraine’s Special Envoy, Keith Kelog would travel to Turkey to participate in the discussion.
Laura Pittal’s additional report
