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Since final sitting down with Ukraine to speak peace, Russia has launched 4 of its 5 largest drone attacks towards the nation, killed greater than 340 of its civilians and continued to hawk its false narrative concerning the unprovoked battle it has been waging for greater than a decade.
Now, Moscow needs to speak. Once more.
Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov stated the following spherical of talks between Russia and Ukraine would happen in Turkey on Monday. On Sunday, Kyiv confirmed that it will be sending a delegation to the assembly, as Russian state media reported {that a} Russian delegation was flying to Istanbul for the talks.
Kyiv says that Russia and Ukraine agreed to change their necessities for a ceasefire throughout their previous meeting in Istanbul final month. However whereas Kyiv stated it offered its plan final week, Russia has not.
The Kremlin has to this point ignored the decision by Ukraine to current the plan. In a put up on Telegram on Wednesday, Lavrov stated the Russian delegation would current its memorandum to Ukraine on the assembly on June 2.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the Kremlin’s failure handy over its plan was “one other Russian deception” and accused Moscow of not wanting to finish the battle.
“For a gathering to be significant, its agenda have to be clear, and the negotiations have to be correctly ready,” Zelensky wrote on X on Friday, after internet hosting Turkey’s overseas minister for talks in Kyiv.
Zelensky stated he’d additionally mentioned the potential second spherical of peace talks with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, writing on Telegram: “We mentioned a potential subsequent assembly in Istanbul and underneath what circumstances Ukraine is prepared to participate in it. We share the view that this assembly can’t and shouldn’t be empty.”
In a put up on X on Sunday, the Ukrainian chief stated that he had requested “preparation of the (Istanbul) assembly on the highest stage” with a view to “set up a dependable and lasting peace and guarantee safety.” Zelensky added that Ukrainian Protection Minister Rustem Umerov would lead the delegation once more.
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