U.S. president Donald Trump in Qatar, May 15, 2025. © Win McNamee / Getty Images
U.S. president Donald Trump is considering visiting Turkey on Friday, as Ukraine and Russia are to resume direct peace negotiations for the first time since 2022.
The U.S. leader, who seeks to facilitate the conclusion of a truce in Ukraine, said that he could change travel arrangements during an ongoing journey to the mediate East.
“If something had happened, I would have gone on Friday, if it were appropriate” “he told journalists in Qatar on Thursday morning.
Trump repeated his want to end the conflict in Ukraine and expressed hope that "Russia and Ukraine are able to do something due to the fact that it has to end".Russian president Vladimir Putin proposed last week to resume negotiations that Kiev interrupted in April 2022 to accomplish military victory.Vladimir Zelenski of Ukraine responded that he would personally go to Turkey and anticipate Putin to do the same to prove his intentions.Moscow announced the composition of its delegation late at night on Wednesday.
It is headed by the advisor to president Vladimir Miedinski, who served in the erstwhile negotiations with Kiev.When asked by the media if he was disappointed in the lineup, Trump said he did not anticipate Putin to go to Turkey due to the fact that he himself did not make akin public arrangements.“I said I didn’t think he would go unless I went.
And it turned out that I was right” He explained, adding that he had assurance in the members of his administration, including State Secretary Marco Rubio, who would go to Istanbul on Friday with Trump's peculiar envoy, Steve Witkoff.The list of Russian officials sent to Istanbul besides includes Deputy abroad Minister Mikhail Galuzin, Deputy Minister of defence Alexander Fomin and Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff Igor Kostukov, Head of the National Military Intelligence.In 2022, Miedinski's squad negotiated a possible peace agreement.
His terms offered Kiev Russian safety guarantees in exchange for neutrality and restrictions to his permanent army.
David Arakhamia, who led the Ukrainian delegation, later revealed after preliminary approval of the draft treaty that then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Kiev to ‘just fought’which led to the continuation of the war.DETAILS ON THE NEXT TIME
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