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Zelensky: I am ready to meet Putin on Thursday in Istanbul

2025-05-11 19:48:56Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Zelensky: I am ready to meet Putin on Thursday in Istanbul
Volodymyr Zelensky / Vladimir Putin

Rapid developments are taking place on the Ukrainian front, as the diplomatic intervention of "willing" European leaders appears to have accelerated processes and led all parties to a reaction after a period of apathy.

Shortly after Donald Trump's publication on Truth Social, where he urged Zelensky to respond positively to Vladimir Putin's call for direct negotiations on Thursday in Turkey, the Ukrainian president reacted in turn on the X network (formerly Twitter), stating that he is ready to meet with the Russian president for direct talks on Thursday in Istanbul.

The Ukrainian president also stressed that he expects a complete and unconditional ceasefire to begin on Monday.

Zelensky concluded his message with: "I will meet Putin on Thursday in Istanbul."

Trump's intervention in Social Truth

On Sunday, Donald Trump made another public intervention, expressing his doubts about Ukraine's willingness to reach a deal with Russia. The US president called on Ukrainian leaders to participate in negotiations with Russian officials on Thursday in Istanbul.

“I am beginning to doubt that Ukraine will make a deal with Putin,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “President Putin does not want a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine, but wants to meet on Thursday, in Turkey, to negotiate a possible end to this BLOODHROWING,” he stressed.

Trump added that the meeting in Istanbul would mean that both sides, as well as European leaders and the US, would then be able to determine whether or not a deal is possible.

"Ping pong" of statements between Ukraine and Russia

In recent hours, there has been an exchange of statements between Ukraine and Russia, with completely different approaches. After a diplomatic move by “ready” European leaders, Vladimir Putin invited Ukraine to direct talks on Thursday in Istanbul, without mentioning an unconditional ceasefire for 30 days, as European leaders had proposed after the meeting in Kiev.

Volodymyr Zelensky accepted the challenge and declared that he would say "yes" to direct talks with Moscow only if the Kremlin agreed to an unconditional ceasefire.

Moscow's reaction to Zelensky's statements

“You misunderstood.” That was Moscow’s response to the Ukrainian president. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Ukraine had misunderstood Putin’s intentions.

Zelensky had previously stated that it is a positive sign that Russia has begun to consider the possibility of ending the war, but that the first step in this direction is a ceasefire that should begin on Monday, May 12.

"There is no point in continuing the killings even for a day. We expect Russia to confirm a ceasefire – complete, sustainable and credible – starting tomorrow, May 12," Zelensky wrote on X.

However, Maria Zakharova made it clear that Putin means that there must first be negotiations on the "fundamental causes" of the conflict and only then can there be talk of a ceasefire.

On the other hand, the Russian Foreign Ministry's ambassador, Rodion Miroshnik, stated on Telegram that Zelensky's ceasefire proposal is actually aimed at rearming and reorganizing the Ukrainian army.

"Negotiations based on the situation on the ground"

Moscow appears unwavering in its commitment to territorial gains in the war. Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov said that peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, proposed by President Putin, would take into account the “situation on the ground” and negotiations in 2022, according to the Interfax news agency.

Putin proposed on Sunday direct negotiations with Ukraine on May 15 in Istanbul.

Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, and a large part of eastern Ukraine after the invasion on February 22, 2022, and has made it clear that it will not give up its territorial gains.

Macron's reaction

Emmanuel Macron sent a clear message to Vladimir Putin, showing the West's distrust of this diplomatic move. The direct negotiations proposed by the Russian president between Russia and Ukraine, in response to the demand for an "unconditional" ceasefire by Kiev and its allies, are "a first step, but they are not enough," the French president declared on Sunday.

"An unconditional ceasefire does not precede negotiations, by definition," Macron told reporters after getting off the train in the Polish city of Przemyśl, on his way back from a visit to Kiev.

Allegations of ceasefire violations

The Russian Defense Ministry announced today that Ukraine has violated the three-day ceasefire, which expired yesterday, over 14,000 times.

"During the ceasefire, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have violated it 14,043 times," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.


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