Ukraine’s president is to go to Ankara in hopes of rebooting talks with Russia and putting an end to Moscow’s full-scale invasion. Yet the Kremlin said no Russian representatives will participate in the meeting, Euronews reports.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will head to Turkey on Wednesday in an attempt to restart negotiations to put an end to Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Kyiv and Moscow officially held a few rounds of direct talks in Turkey in the spring, but the process stalled since July.
Zelenskyy said on Tuesday he hoped the diplomatic process could restart.
“We are preparing to intensify negotiations, and we have developed solutions that we will propose to our partners”, Zelenskyy said in a post on X.
Ukraine’s leader will most likely present it to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, who is also expected in Ankara on Wednesday.
Russian representatives will not take part in talks on Ukraine in Turkey, the Kremlin said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was nevertheless open to conversations with the US and Turkey on the results of the talks, his spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
Moscow has repeatedly rejected any possibility of direct talks between Putin and Zelenskyy.
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