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Putin, Trump will not be in Türkiye for direct talks offered between Ukraine Russia
US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will not attend what could be the first direct peace talks between Moscow and kyiv in three years on Thursday.
Putin on Sunday Direct negotiations proposed With Ukraine in Türkiye “without any prerequisite”, although he ceased to say that he would attend.
On Wednesday, the Kremlin said that the delegation would include the presidential advisor Vladimir Medinsky and the Russian Deputy Deputy Minister Alexander Fomin.
An American official then said that Trump would not attend – a few days after saying that he was considering the trip.
The absence of Russian and American presidents reduces the expectations of a major breakthrough in the war that Russia began In February 2022.
The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy had challenged Putin to attend the talks “if he is not afraid”, in an apparent competition to show Trump who wants more peace.
Zelenskyy was on the way to Turkey, a Ukrainian official said on Wednesday. Earlier, Zelenskyy had said He would participate In negotiations only if Putin was there.
US rep. Jim Himes said to cnn That he saw no reason for Trump – or Zelenskyy – to be in Türkiye if Putin was not there.
“I think everyone understands that Putin is not interested in real peace negotiations,” said Himes, a classification democrat of the intelligence committee of the American House of Representatives.
The Democrat said that “the real question” is now how Trump should adjust the American position on Russia.
Trump wants the two parties to register a 30-day ceasefire to suspend the greatest land war in Europe since the Second World War, and a Russian legislator said on Wednesday that there could also be discussions on a huge prisoner in War Exchange.
Zelenskyy supports an immediate 30-day ceasefire, but Putin said he wanted to start talks to which the details of such a ceasefire could be discussed.
Threat of more sanctions
Trump, who is becoming more and more frustrated by Russia and Ukraine as he tries to push them towards a peace regulation, said that he “still considered” secondary sanctions against Moscow if he thought he was blocking the process.
US officials have spoken of possible financial sanctions and secondary sanctions against Russian oil buyers. The leaders of Western Europe have also threatened Russia with new sanctions if there is no progress in stopping fighting in Ukraine.
Domitilla Sagramoso, expert in Russian foreign and security policy, says that there are questions about the duration of the Moscow War and there are signs that he follows in the sanctions already in force.
“Any additional pressure is problematic for the Kremlin and that explains why in all negotiations, Russia is trying to raise the sanctions”, Sagramoso, lecturer in security and development at the King’s College of London, told Deutsche Welle in Germany.
But the sanctions have not yet ended war.
“This kind of dream that Russia will collapse tomorrow because sanctions are imposed has not occurred, will not occur early enough,” said Nina Khrushcheva, professor of international affairs at the new New York school. at CBS News Wednesday.
A Ukrainian diplomatic source told Reuters on Wednesday that the management of Ukraine would decide its next steps for peace talks in Turkey once there was a clarity on Putin’s participation.
Before returning to the oval office, Trump had, repeatedlysaid he could end the war in 24 hours. More than three months after its new presidency, war continues.
The war, which recently crossed the three -year bar, saw the use of trenches and tanks, as well as the in -depth use of drones by both sides.
The UN says At least 12,700 civilians were killed and more than 30,000 others were injured, since Russia launched its large -scale invasion of its neighbor.
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