US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would like to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin “as soon as we can set it”, during a business round table in Abu Dhabi, AFP press agency said.
“As soon as we can set it up, I would actually leave and go,” Trump said in response to the question of meeting with the Russian leader. “We’ll see what happens to Russia and Ukraine,” he added, referring to interviews with Russia-Ukraine, which takes place in Turkey.
Russia and Ukraine are scheduled to organize their first direct peaceful conversations on Friday and gather in Istanbul to negotiate on Turkish mediation, but officials and observers expect to bring little immediate progress to stop more than 3 years of war.
The Ukrainian delegation led by Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov was to meet the Russian team at a low level led by President Vladimir Medinsky.
A meeting between Turkish, American and Ukrainian officials in Istanbul began.
Ukraine agreed with the American and European proposal for a complete 30 -day ceasefire, but Putin effectively rejected by imposing far -reaching conditions. The Ukrainian government and Western military analysts State that Russian forces are Russian forces that are preparing for a new military offensive, reported.
On Thursday, after Putin did not accept the challenge of the Ukrainian President to sit down in the Turkish capital, he accused Moscow of Zelene of the fact that he did not deal with serious efforts to end the war by sending a negotiating team at a low level, which called the “theater props”.
Yet Zeletskyy said he was sending a team led by his Minister of Defense to Friday’s meeting in Istanbul. This would show Trump that Ukraine is solid to mention Zeletskyy with a slight effort, despite the Russian move, in the middle of intensive diplomatic maneuvering of Kiev and Moscow.
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