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Donald Trump says he was open to join the talks between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey on Thursday, as US efforts to end the Ukraine war intensified.
The US president will visit the Gulf this week on official travel in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar this week and said he could create a path to Turkey to participate in a planned discussion between the two warships.
“I don’t know where I go on Thursday, I got a lot of meetings, but I was actually thinking about fly there,” Trump He told reporters at the White House on Monday. “There is a possibility of it, my idea, if I think things can happen, we’ve been able to do it.”
Trump had previously described the possibility of direct discussion between Moscow and Kiev as “Russia and Ukraine’s possible great days!”
Came as a diplomatic attempt to stop the President’s proposal to join the discussion War of Ukraine A gear has been removed with the jerk of high-profile meetings on the weekend. Ukrainian military leaders and analysts say Russian forces took offensive steps at several main points along the 1,000 -kilometer frontline.
After the Kiev discussion between the President of Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Poland and Ukraine on Saturday Voldimire ZelanskyAllies have called on Russia to consent to a 30 -day unconditional ceasefire from Monday or call for “huge” new sanctions.
On Sunday, Trump’s Ukraine ambassador Kelog Kelog Kith Kelog supported this position, though Trump himself was even more kept in his public comment on the issue.
Russian President Vladimir Putin responded Sunday that Moscow and Kiev should be discussed directly in Istanbul this Thursday, “Without any prerequisites”. It was not clear whether he planned to attend personally.
Petni The claims also appeared to dismiss Western calls for Western calls described as “ultimatum”. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that before any discussion on the ceasefire, Russia-Ukraine must be discussed before the main causes of conflict.
Trump responded to the Russian discussion proposal that “it should agree with Ukraine”.
“At least they will be able to determine if any agreement is possible,” he wrote about the true social. “If that is not the case then the European leaders and the United States will know where everything stands, and can proceed accordingly!”
Trump also complained that he “began to suspect that Ukraine would make a deal with Putin”.
Jensky later agreed to the Istanbul discussion, challenging the Russian leader and challenged to show what would happen for the second time to meet the two.
“I will be in Turkey this Thursday,” said Jelnsky. “I hope that this time, Putin is not looking for excuses about why it can’t make it. We are ready to talk about this war.”
The first and only time Putin and Jensky met, in Paris, on December 27, they failed to agree to a peace plan to end the Kremlin-established armed conflict in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine.
On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov Putin did not clarify whether he had planned to attend his proposed meeting. The spokesperson also added that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo ।an agreed with Putin to organize a meeting in Istanbul on Sunday.
Peskov described a prerequisite for 30 days of ceasefire, but it is as unacceptable ultimatum.
“This language of ultimatum is not acceptable to Russia, it is not suitable. You can’t talk to Russia like this,” he said.
Zelnsky’s office told The Financial Times that the Ukrainian President would go to Turkey whether Putin was shown or not. Talking to the Ukrainian media, the President’s Chief of Staff Andri Yarmak said Ukraine would not give Russia a reason to accuse Russia disrupt our peace process “.
Türkiye organized a discussion between Russian and Ukrainian officials in 2022 a few weeks after Russia’s western neighbor’s full-scale invasion.
But after this discussion was broken, it was revealed that the Russian forces had civilians in the nearby Bucha near Kiev – a law condemned the war criminals.
As part of his “balanced” approach to Erdo ।an Ukraine, Turkey is one of the few countries that have good relations with both parties, providing military supplies to Kiev by maintaining trade and diplomatic relations with Moscow.
The latest peace push has come into the offensive of a new Russian spring that has seen that its military forces attacked the strategic cities of Pokorovsk, Toretsk and Chasive Year before Ukraine. Deep State, a Ukrainian analytical group related to the Ministry of Defense, said that the country’s forces launched more attacks every day than in the same period of April during the one -sided “ceasefire” in Russia.
It records about 155 separate attacks every day during the three -day period.
“There was no ceasefire on any front,” the group said.
Additional Report of John Paul Rothbone in Istanbul
