Putin says Russia is ready for “direct conversations” with Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed “direct conversations” with Ukraine on Thursday (15) in Istanbul, Turkey.

Putin’s speech is seeking to end the three -year conflict, to agree with the European leaders and the United States Press Putin with a 30 -day ceasefire.

“We want to start (conversations) immediately, next Thursday, May 15, in Istanbul-they will catch them before they are interrupted,” Putin said in a television speech on Saturday (10).

In this statement, Putin insisted that “no prior conditions” should be discussed.

Putin said, “We are determined to start serious talks with Ukraine,” they said, “They are” eliminating the deep reasons of conflict “and” establishing long -lasting permanent peace. “

According to French President Emmanuel Macran, Putin said that Germany, France, United Kingdom and Poland leaders would agree with ceasefire on Monday (12) from Monday (12) or faced “heavy sanctions”.

Europeans said the European request came up with the US support after a joint call for leaders with President Donald Trump.

Shortly after the leaders seeking ceasefire, Russian government spokesman Dmitry Pescov said Russia was “resistant to any pressure.”

“Europe is actually facing us very publicly,” Peskov said, “Putin” is supporting the idea of ​​ceasefire, but “there are many questions” -that’s proposal yet to be answered without mentioning the proposal.

Ukraine and Russia do not place direct conversations from the Russian invasion of the neighboring country at the beginning of 2022.

Turkish President Recep Taip Erdogan said he would talk to Putin Ukraine last Sunday (4) and Putin Ukraine.

Two months ago, Ukraine said that 30 days should be ceasefire immediately-the main European allies of the Ukranians and Trump have also approved.

So far, Russia has refused to commit to committed, which in principle supports the 2 -day ceasefire idea, but first is called “nuances”.

Even last Sunday, Putin denied that he refused a conversation with Moscow Ukraine and said, “Now this decision is up to Ukrainian officials.”

“We do not dismiss a new negotiation and new ceasefire during these negotiations,” he said.

Putin’s proposed negotiations “are the first step towards stable and permanent peace, but after the reorganization, the armed conflict and the repetition of the Ukrainian armed forces are not the beginning.”

The Russian leader has often spoken about the need to address the so -called “deep reasons” for the controversy of the North Atlantic Agreement (NATO) company for Eastern Europe.

In the publication of a public social network last Thursday (8), Trump wrote, “If the ceasefire is not respected, the US and his partners will impose new sanctions on Russia.

Trump concludes the war in Ukraine, one of his priorities of his tenure and invests trying to persuade Putin.

Steve Witcuff, his government’s special ambassador, flew to Russia four times to meet Putin, and had held several other meetings among American and Russian officials since Trump returned to the White House in January this year.

The Trump government has failed to agree with Russia with a limited ceasefire proposal, although the previous ink -to -end of Russia from the West, which is aiming to pave the way for a permanent negotiation.

In April, US Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio threatened, and that Americans would stop negotiations if there were no progress. Now the US has joined Ukraine’s other Western allies and has doubled the pressure on Russia.

CNN said that Pescov Russia was “very thankful” for the US mediation efforts, but at the same time trying to press them at the same time.

* In collaboration with Andrew Carey, Nick Paton Walsh and Ivana Kottasova