CHIKUN/KAJURU REP, HON. FIDELIX BAGUDU, ANNOUNCES NEW APPOINTMENTS TO STRENGTHEN INCLUSIVE GOVERNANCE. (PHOTO).
After a day of uncertainty, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says he’s sending a team to Istanbul for peace talks with a Russian delegation. He’s announced his defense minister will lead the delegation.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, who first proposed the talks, won’t be attending. Nor will Zelensky, who said that he would not meet any official but Putin.
Another key figure who won’t be there is US President Donald Trump, who had repeatedly hinted that he might upend his Middle East travel schedule to join the negotiations. He said Putin’s absence didn’t disappoint him, and that “nothing” would happen on Ukraine until he meets him.
Kyiv and Moscow are not known to have held direct talks at any level since soon after Moscow launched its unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But the stakes are higher this time, as both Trump and Ukraine’s European allies said they would impose more sanctions on Moscow if it didn’t agree to a ceasefire.
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