Putin’s plan to present a meeting in Istanbul as a continuation of negotiations in 2022 was defeated – Sibiga

Foreign Minister of Ukraine Andriy Sibiga summed up the meeting of the Ukrainian delegation with representatives of the Russian Federation, saying that a meeting in Istanbul cannot and will not serve as an excuse to not increase pressure on Russia.

Source: Sibiga in Facebook

Direct Language: « If you move away all Russian nonsense, pseudo -historical statements, provocations, etc., in a dry balance we have the following: 1000 of our people – we managed to agree on a return. It is 1000 happy families. Even for this sake, all this was all the point. The ceasefire is not enough.

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Details: The minister stressed that Vladimir Putin should stop meeting meetings with Vladimir Zelensky.

In addition, he noted that « Putin’s plan to present a meeting in Istanbul as a continuation of March 2022 was defeated, because it is already a completely new dynamics, a new point of reference. »

Direct Language: « Other conditions and realities are now. And the key is the US factor and President’s peaceful efforts.

That preceded:

• May 16 for the first time in more than three years in Istanbul Direct negotiations took place between Russia and Ukraine.
• According to the results of the negotiations, the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umerov stated that during them They were discussed ceasefire and humanitarian issues, as well as possible meeting at the level of leaders.
• George Tykhy Ministry spokesman said Journalists in Istanbul that at the negotiations « the Russian delegation expressed a number of things we consider unacceptable. » However, he refused to say which ones.