Published: May 15, 2025 9:04 am
Author: RT
Direct talks between Moscow and Kiev are set to resume in Istanbul on Thursday
There is no chance that Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend this week’s peace talks between Moscow and Kiev in Istanbul, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
Peskov denied there are plans for a presidential visit, shortly after US President Donald Trump said he mulled going to Türkiye on Friday “if something happened.” Direct negotiations are set to resume later on Thursday.
Putin last week proposed renewing the peace process that was aborted by Kiev in 2022, with Washington calling such contacts the next logical step in its attempts to mediate a truce in the Ukraine conflict.
The 2022 round produced a draft treaty, which offered Ukraine security guarantees in exchange for neutrality and accepting restrictions on its standing army. Kiev later rejected the deal in favour of continuing with warfare, backed by the West.
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