The expected Meeting between delegations of Russia and Ukraine that will be held this Friday in Istanbul, although it is expected without substantial advances after being eclipsed by two key absences: that of Russian President Vladimir Putin and that of the American president Donald Trump. The meeting, which Putin proposed after being pressed by Trump, was going to be held the day before – it was first in the morning and finally suspended – and but postponed for the next day. What promised to be a step towards a possible distension in the conflict, has ended as a symbol of stagnation and distrust between both parties after being accused of trying to boycott the meeting.
Meanwhile, Zelenski insisted that he was willing and wanted to sit down to talk to Putinbut he has recognized that it will be difficult because the Russian president “is missing respect for all”, to Ukraine, Turkey and even to the United States, and that “we have the mandate of discussing a high fire, this is the first thing. Although I still believe that Russia has taken this meeting with little seriousness and does not want the war to end”, after the Russian sends as the head of his delegation not to a minister of his delegation. Advisor who is president of the Union of Russian writers: Medinski, who has already participated with zero success in the negotiations of 2022.
We have the mandate to discuss a high fire, this is the first. Although I still believe that Russia has taken this meeting with little seriousness and does not want the war to end
The Turkish president Erdogan, after talking to Zelenski he has asked for a high immediate fire And he has asked him that his representative, the Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov, did not leave Türkiye: Action that has accepted by respect for the Turk and Donald Trump, in addition to the fact that Ukraine maintains his willingness to negotiate.
The meeting that ends in insults
After Zelenski defined the Russian delegation for the meeting as a farce, it was The spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs of Russia, María Zajarova, who responded totally losing the forms. He has called the Ukrainian president “clown”, “failed” and “person without recognized education.” “Who is believed to be?” Asked the Russian spokeswoman, guaranteed that the people chosen to be today at the negotiating table are perfectly prepared to make decisions.
To which Russia, for now, has not agreed is to accept a 30 -day truce In the front. Right now the Russian forces are advancing in several regions. kyiv demands a high fire to negotiate, but its requests to which those of the main European powers have fallen into a broken sack on Sunday. And the negotiations have not even begun.
Tump, in the middle of the dispute
And in the midst of everything, a Donald Trump who concludes his tour in Arab Emirates todayand that until the last minute he had shown his willingness to travel to Türkiye, a scale that now seems totally discarded, but if the mediation is fruitful, he can set up to the meeting. If the opposite occurs, it will go directly to Washington, but whatever it is, “this we have to solve because there are many people who keep dying.”
((Dest: C ||| this we have to solve because there are many people who keep dying)
The United States will be represented in these conversations by Secretary of State Marco Rubiowhich has already been in charge of lowering the expectations that some kind of agreement can be reached today. Trump himself has been clearer conditioning any advance to a future face to face with the tenant of the Kremlin, ensuring that “nothing will happen until Putin and I met” and that obviously he was not going to go if the US leader did not show up, but “we have to solve this because there are many people who keep dying.”
