Zelenskyy arrives in Ukraine to Türkiye to hold talks with the Russian delegation that Putin sent without a offer

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent assistants and deputy ministers to hold peace talks with Ukraine in Türkiye on Thursday, which led to Kiev challenging to go there to meet President Folomemir Zelinsky.

Putin at the end of last week The proposed direct negotiations With Ukraine in Istanbul and Zelinski he said he would wait for the Kremlin leader.

But after maintaining the world’s guessing for several days about Putin’s plans, the Kremlin late on Wednesday named a minimum delegation that did not include the president and described by the Europeans ’allies as fear.

The Zelinski plane landed at the Ansba Airport in Ankara and was scheduled to meet Erdogan. He said that Ukraine will decide the next steps in talks with Russia after his meeting with the Turkish president.

Zelenskiy told the correspondents that the level of the Russian delegation rescued Turkey to hold the talks was “decorative”.

Putin has decreased not to display the horizons of conversations in confusion. Russia said it would be held in Istanbul in the second half of the day, but Türkiye has said that the date of a meeting has not been set.

“We need to understand the type of level in which the Russian delegation is, and what a mandate they have and whether they can make any decisions,” Zellinski said.

Washington is closely watched

Zelinski had left Putin earlier this week by asking whether he was brave enough to appear. The Kremlin says that Putin – who is also threatened with even the most stressful European sanctions on “suffocating” the Russian economy – does not respond to warning.

The Russian delegation, which was called the Kremlin, is headed by presidential advisor, Vladimir Midinski, and includes the Deputy Minister of Defense, Deputy Foreign Minister and head of the Military Intelligence Agency in puppy.

The Kremlin said that Putin held a meeting late at night with ministers, military leaders and spy heads to discuss the upcoming talks.

The warring aspects held the latest faces to face in March 2022, just weeks after Putin sent his army to Ukraine, talks in Türkiye.

Both are trying to show US President Donald Trump, as he is serious about peace, because he presses them to end what he calls “this stupid war.” Washington has repeatedly threatened to abandon its diplomatic efforts to settle the conflict unless there is clear progress.

Hundreds of thousands have been killed and wounded on both sides in the maximum conflict in Europe since World War II. Washington has repeatedly threatened to abandon its mediation efforts unless there is clear progress.

After being strongly tending to Ukraine and engaging with Zelinski at a meeting at the Oval Office in February, Trump showed increasing patience with Putin in recent weeks and threatened additional sanctions by beating Russian trade.

Trump, who is on a tour of three countries in the Middle East, said on Thursday that he would go to the talks in Türkiye on Friday, “if it is appropriate.”

Zelenskyy supports an immediate shooting stop for 30 days, but Putin said he first wants to start talks that can discuss the details of such a truce.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking at a meeting of NATO in Türkiye, said that there is no military solution to the conflict, and Trump was open to “almost any mechanism” that would lead to peace.

Ukraine is looking for security guarantees

With the Russian forces controlling nearly five Ukraine, Putin fasted on his long demands for Kyiv to waive his lands, give up the aspirations of NATO membership and become a neutral country.

Ukraine rejects these conditions as a surrender, and seeks to obtain guarantees for its future security from global powers, especially the United States.

French Foreign Minister Jean -Nula Barrot said that Zelinski showed his goodwill by coming to Türkiye, but there was a “empty chair” where Putin should sit.

“Putin stops and it is clear that he has no desire to enter into this peace negotiations, even when President Trump expressed his availability and desire to facilitate these negotiations,” he said.

Estonia, a member of the European Union and NATO, which borders Russia, said that Putin was offering a “slap” by sending a low -level team.

With the highlight of the level of tension between Russia and the US -led coalition, Estonia said that a Russian fighter plane “violated NATO lands” as the Astony Navy tried to hold a oil tanker linked to Russia under British sanctions.