The Turkish chief of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ankara at 1pm local time, 12 in Italy. This is stated in the official program of Erdogan of Erdogan released by the Anadolu agency, while it is not clear if the two leaders will have a joint press conference. According to the Turkish media, delegations of Moscow and Kiev will instead meet in Istanbul for the first direct interviews between the two parties from 2022. The Kremlin has announced that Vladimir Medinsky, Councilor of President Vladimir Putin, he will be head of the Russian delegation accompanied by a deputy minister of foreign, one of the defense and the general Igor KostyukovDirector of Military Gru Services Services.
The beginning of the negotiations directed to Istanbul between Russian and Ukrainian delegations was postponed in the afternoon on Turkish request, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, mentioned by Tass. The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharovarecalled Putin’s words according to which negotiations must aim “to eliminate the background causes of the conflict and get to a durable peace in a historical perspective”. While Ukrainian officials mentioned by the Wall Street Journal say that the Ukrainian delegation will meet the Russian one only to discuss how to implement and monitor a 30 -day unconditional fire proposed by the Trump Administration.
The spokesperson of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov He said that the Russian negotiations were prepared during a meeting chaired last night by Vladimir Putin in which the members of the Moscow delegation took part, led by Vladimir Medinsky, the foreign and defense ministers, the head of the National Security Council, the Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov, the directors of the internal intelligence services and for abroad and all the commanders of the military groups engaged. in the conflict. The headquarters of the interviews, writes the Ria Novosti agency, will be the same as the negotiations of 2022: the Dolmabahce palace, in the offices of the Turkish presidential administration.