Vladimir Putin to overcome the talks of Russia Ukraine in Türkiye

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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he would not participate in peace talks in Türkiye between Moscow and Kiev on Thursday, despite the appeals of Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinsky.

White House officials said that US President Donald Trump will not go to Türkiye for talks after Putin announced the list of Russian attendees, all of whom are relatively low officials.

Putin was first suggested to hold direct talks Between Russia and Ukraine -“Without preconditions”-last Sunday, in response to a request from the Western allies of Ukraine for a 30-day ceasefire in War. He said that the negotiations will be held on Thursday in Türkiye.

The Russian president said that their goal is to “remove the radical causes of the conflict and move towards creating a long -term and permanent peace in a historical perspective.”

Zelinski said he is ready to attend, but only if Putin also appears, because “everything in Russia depends” on the Russian leader.

“So I said I will go to Türkiye on Thursday (Thursday), and I am ready to meet Putin, and the end of the war was through direct talks with him,” Zellinski told Kiev journalists before Putin’s announcement.

However, from the beginning there was a big doubt about Kiev and other European capitals that the Russian leader would actually appear, although the idea of ​​the conversations was for him.

Trump initially praised Putin’s initiative, describing it as a “great day for Russia and Ukraine.” The president, who is currently on an official visit to the oil -rich Gulf states, said that he may turn to Türkiye to attend the talks.

The reaction of some of his senior officials was more cautious. Keith Keel, the American special envoy to Ukraine, said there should be a ceasefire before peace negotiations.

White House officials announced earlier this week that Kiloj, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and Trump Envoy Steve Witkeov will also travel to Türkiye to participate in the talks.

A person familiar with Witkoff plans said he still intends to go to Türkiye on Friday, despite the absence of Putin. Rubio currently attends an informal meeting of NATO ministers abroad in the southern Turkish coastal town of Antalya.

In recent days, the Kremlin officials have refused to answer questions about whether Putin would attend personally, or who will be in the delegation.

The meetings of Russia and the previous United States in Saudi Arabia led Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other senior diplomats. However, for Turkish talks, Putin said he was sending a delegation led by his advisor, former Minister of Culture, Vladimir Midinski.

This step indicates that Russia is keen on talks to pick up the place where they stopped in the spring of 2022, just weeks after Moscow launched a large -scale invasion of its neighbor. Medinsky took the lead in those talks, although the talks were broken in sharpness and the fighting continued.

He will join Deadensky, Deputy Minister of Defense Alexander Faten, another member of the 2022 delegation, as well as Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galozin and Eugur Costokov, Director of the Main Intelligence Directorate in puppy, the Russian Military Intelligence Agency.

“Moscow introduces its new initiative as” nothing new to see here; After a long break, we only suggest the resumption of the 2022 negotiations that Ukraine boycotted at the request of the West. “

Putin’s decision to miss the talks follow a recent attempt by Brazilian President Luiz Inosio Lula da Silva to persuade him to go during an improvised station in Moscow.

However, no personal meeting happened. Instead, Lula arrived in Putin on the phone, a statement issued by the Brazilian leader’s office said.