Zelenskyy to travel to Turkey for peace talks regardless of Putin’s plans

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Ukraine President Vloadimire Jensky has promised to travel to Turkey regardless of Vladimir Putin’s plan, and has increased the partnership in promoting the Western -led pressure to engage the Russian president in peace talks.

Zensky is planning to travel to Ankara on Thursday where he will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo ।an and wait for Putin’s arrival in Istanbul or elsewhere in Turkey.

“If he takes this step as he is ready for a ceasefire, it opens the way to discuss all elements to finish it WarJensky told reporters on Tuesday.

If Putin refuses to show, “that means only one thing: that Russia is not ready for discussion”, said Gelnsky. In that case, the United States and European partners must face their threats to impose “strong sanctions” on Russia, he added.

Germany’s new Chancellor Fredrich Merge said on Tuesday that European countries were working together on a “significant harsh” of the ban if they were agreed if they had no “true progress” from Putin.

Merge said that he appreciated the compromise of Zelnsky, but he added: “I believe more compromise and more exemptions are no longer reasonable.”

Gelnsky said he did not agree to meet any Russian official other than Putin, as only “agreement” could be made with the President of Russia.

If the leaders do not have a meeting by the Ukrainian President’s office, a group of Ukrainian negotiators can meet Russian allies.

Putin first published the idea of ​​a meeting in Istanbul between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators-but in a brief speech in nine -abeb, to agree to the 30-day unwanted war after a few weeks of pressure from Kiev, Washington and European capitals.

Kremlin refuses to clarify whether Russia’s President will participate. Asked about Putin’s plan on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that “Russia is ready for discussion” and will announce that “the President will take part in it as necessary”.

On Monday, Pescov criticized the Western threat of further sanctions as “inappropriate”.

US President Donald Trump has called on both sides to discuss as soon as possible.

Trump, who started traveling abroad on his second term in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, said that he was open on Monday Negotiating In Turkey his Russian and Ukrainian associates “If I think things can happen then we’ve been able to complete it”.

The US President said that the Secretary of State of State of and Acting National Security Advisor Marco Rubio will travel to Türkiye to participate.

Russia’s Deputy Minister of Deputy Minister Sergey Ribokov on Tuesday enrolled in Moscow Istanbul, listed on some issues, including “solving issues related to Kiev rule”, a word Russian officials and democrats, especially the Jewnski, to change the leadership.

Ribokov said that “recognition of reality” on the ground, including the entrance of new zones in the Russian Federation, should also be on the agenda by referring to the southern and eastern Ukraine parts under the Russian occupation.

Zensky says the Ukrainian party is seeking an instant, unconditional 30 -day ceasefire as a prerequisite for a broad, formal discussion. If Putin agrees, the ceasefire is practical implementation, protection guarantee and a lower-level discussion on the extensive structure for D-Aslence, after a lower-level discussion.

He said that since US proposed unconditional ceasefire for the first two months, Kiev was ready to implement it. Russia, on the other hand, said that Ukraine invaded several hundred missiles and drones and continued to attack with a new aggressive introduction across the frontline of a thousand kilometers.

Deep State, a close Ukrainian analytical group of the Ministry of Defense, says that Russian forces occupied more space around the cities of Pokorovs and Toretes, especially in the eastern Donetsk region this week.

Ukrainian intelligence officials told the Financial Times that Russia seemed to be a larger aggressive, ongoing force on the main hotspots of the battlefield rather than hinting for peace.