It was Putin’s initiative to carry what could be the primary direct peace talks in additional than three years in Istanbul on Thursday however he by no means mentioned he could be going himself and has as a substitute despatched a delegation there headed by Vladimir Medinsky, one in all his presidential advisers.
Requested if Putin would journey to Turkey for talks within the coming days, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov instructed reporters:
“There are not any such plans on the present time. There’s a delegation of Russian negotiators in Istanbul who’re ready for his or her Ukrainian counterparts who haven’t but turned up.”
Requested if Putin would go to Istanbul if U.S. President Donald Trump did, Peskov mentioned Russia didn’t know but how the negotiations would go.
“It’s untimely to say what sort of participation shall be required and at what degree as a result of we have no idea if the Ukrainian negotiators will present up or not and the way the negotiations will go,” Peskov mentioned.
Trump, who’s on a three-nation tour of the Center East, mentioned on Thursday that he might go to Turkey for talks on Friday “whether it is applicable”.
