Zelenskyy welcomes the US chief’s initiative, insists Putin also needs to be within the Turkish metropolis ‘in individual’.
United States President Donald Trump has supplied to hitch the talks that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin instructed needs to be held immediately with Ukraine, after criticism of the Western “ultimatums” to finish the battle between the 2 Slavic nations.
Trump mentioned on Monday he was “desirous about truly flying over” to the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul to attend the negotiations anticipated to happen on Thursday. The initiative was welcomed by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, however there was no instant response from Moscow.
“All of us in Ukraine would respect it if President Trump might be there with us at this assembly in Turkey. That is the best thought. We are able to change loads,” Zelenskyy mentioned.
Trump publicly requested Zelenskyy to attend, after Putin on Sunday proposed the direct talks following a rejection of a 30-day ceasefire Ukraine and its Western allies insisted ought to come first.
The Ukrainian chief mentioned he would, however that Putin also needs to attend in individual. On Tuesday, his adviser Mykhailo Podolyak reiterated that Zelenskyy would solely meet Putin and no different members of the Russian delegation.
The Kremlin has made no touch upon whether or not or not Putin will journey to Turkiye himself. “We’re dedicated to a severe seek for methods of a long-term peaceable settlement,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov advised reporters on Monday.
If Zelenskyy and Putin have been to fulfill on Thursday, it could be their first face-to-face assembly since December 2019.
I’ve simply heard President Trump’s assertion. Essential phrases.
I supported @POTUS thought of a full and unconditional ceasefire — lengthy sufficient to offer the muse for diplomacy. And we would like it, we’re able to uphold silence on our finish.
I supported President Trump…
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) Could 12, 2025
In the meantime, Ukraine mentioned its air defence models destroyed all 10 drones that Russia launched in a single day on Tuesday. That is the bottom variety of drones that Russia has launched in an in a single day assault in a number of weeks.
The Ukrainian navy’s common employees mentioned as of 10pm (19:00 GMT) on Monday, there had been 133 clashes with Russian forces alongside the entrance line since midnight, when the ceasefire proposed by European powers was to have come into impact.
Ukraine’s prime commander, Oleksandr Syrskii, was quoted by Zelenskyy as saying the heaviest preventing nonetheless gripped the Donetsk area, the main focus of the japanese entrance, and Russia’s western Kursk area, 9 months after Kyiv’s forces staged a cross-border incursion.
In the meantime, Russia accused Ukraine of attacking its Belgorod area, with the governor Vyacheslav Gladkov saying on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces used 65 drones and greater than 100 rounds of ammunition to assault his area prior to now day.
