Reuters learned that the United States discussed with Turkey the transfer of S-400 to Ukraine
Two more points are the status of the republics of Donbass and the ownership of Crimea. How declared In an interview with Al Jazeera, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin, Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that the positions of the parties on these two issues have not come close enough.
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Cavusoglu expressed hope for an early cessation of hostilities if the parties “do not retreat from their current positions.”
In his opinion, neither Putin nor Zelensky is against a personal meeting. “If there is an agreement, they will definitely meet,” the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry is convinced, not ruling out that the talks of the heads of state will be held in Turkey.
“We will be happy to host them in Turkey. But in reality, it is only important that they meet, in Turkey or elsewhere,” he stressed.
Turkey has repeatedly offered to organize a meeting between Putin and Zelensky in order to reduce tensions that have arisen in the region, and continued to make such a proposal after the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. On March 17, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan again offered to hold talks between the leaders in Istanbul or Ankara.
While the parties are negotiating at the level of delegations. Three meetings were held in Belarus, then the discussion continued in video format. On March 10, Foreign Ministers of Russia and Ukraine Sergey Lavrov and Dmitry Kuleba met in Antalya.
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On March 18, the head of the Russian delegation, presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, said that the representatives of the two countries had become as close as possible in discussing the neutral status of Ukraine and were “somewhere halfway” on the issue of demilitarization.
A member of the Ukrainian delegation and an adviser to the presidential office, Mikhail Podolyak, did not rule out that the negotiations could drag on for several weeks due to “mutually exclusive legal issues.” He called the main requirements of the Ukrainian side “a ceasefire, the withdrawal of troops and a political settlement on the issue of disputed territories.”
Zelensky has been declaring his readiness for negotiations with Putin since the beginning of the military operation. The Kremlin called such a meeting “conceptually possible,” but emphasized that delegations and ministers must do their work first. According to Cavusoglu, Putin said in a conversation with Erdogan that he was not against meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart. The Minister also stated that Russia is not against Turkey as one of the guarantors of Ukraine’s security.