Ukraine peace talks dangle in steadiness after Putin and Trump skip Turkey summit | EUROtoday

Ukraine peace talks dangle in steadiness after Putin and Trump skip Turkey summit
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Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine stay up within the air as president Vladimir Putin is notably absent from Russia’s in-person delegation listing and US chief Donald Trump has introduced he’ll not go to the Turkey summit both.

A US official stated that Mr Trump would not be a part of the talks in Istanbul, having beforehand toyed with the concept of going if Putin was attending.

Russia introduced their delegation listing on Wednesday night and the listing didn’t embrace Putin’s identify. Instead, the delegation included his adviser Vladimir Medinsky, deputy defence minister Alexander Fomin, and Igor Kostyukov, director of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the GRU (Russia’s navy intelligence company).

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky’s adviser made it clear that the chief wouldn’t meet any consultant of Russia in Turkey besides the Kremlin chief. Mr Zelensky even stated he and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan would look forward to Putin in Ankara, Turkey’s capital metropolis.

He added that “if Putin does not arrive and plays games, it is the final point that he does not want to end the war.”

US officials confirmed Mr Trump would not attend the peace talks
US officers confirmed Mr Trump wouldn’t attend the peace talks (Reuters)

If each leaders had been to attend the talks in Turkey, it could be the primary time within the three-year battle that that they had sat down collectively.

Putin initially proposed restarting direct talks in Istanbul “without preconditions” final Thursday, with Mr Zelensky difficult him to be there in individual.

The Kremlin chief’s resolution to restart talks comes because the US and different European leaders threatened Russia with additional sanctions if there was no progress in halting the preventing in Ukraine.

France’s overseas minister Jean-Noël Barrot has stated he’s working with US senator Lindsey Graham, a number one ally of Mr Trump, on a possible new package deal of “devastating” sanctions to “asphyxiate once and for all the Russian economy” with 500 per cent import tariffs on Russian oil and the international locations that purchase it.

Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer stated on Saturday that European allies, “together with the US”, had been “calling Putin out”, because the strain will increase on Russia to just accept an unconditional ceasefire.

Sir Keir stated that allies would “ramp up sanctions” if the Russian president “turns his back on peace”, as he and allies backed plans for a 30-day ceasefire.

Former vice chief of employees for the US Army, retired basic Jack Keane, accused Putin of “stalling” peace talks to achieve concessions.

Gen Keane instructed Fox News on Wednesday: “In my own line, Putin is using that talk to stall, that’s his motivation here, and trying to get more concessions.”

“I think Russia has made up its mind, they’re not going to (agree) any permanent ceasefire any day soon, they’re going to treat going down as hard line, and they want to get concessions which are pretty unreasonable for Ukraine.

“They want Zelensky to be gone, they want to change the constitution, they want to demilitarise Ukraine’s military, they will not accept any peacekeepers in the nation if there is a peace deal, and the list goes on.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-peace-talks-turkey-putin-trump-b2751222.html