Donald Trump says no deal on Ukraine until he meets Vladimir Putin

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Donald Trump said that “nothing will happen” about Russia-Ukraine peacelessly, as long as he and Vladimir Putin are not satisfied with the expectations of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine’s ministers in Turkey.

The comments of the US President threatened to make the last peace efforts, as Russian and Ukrainian The negotiators met for the first time since 2022.

“Look, nothing will happen until Putin and I gather well.” Trump told reporters about the air force before landing in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday as part of his Middle East. He said that Putin was “obvious.” If the President of the United States was also not present.

Trump has previously said that he is open to talks in Turkey, but decided that the Russian President became clear to the eleventh time that he would not participate.

“I don’t believe that something happens, whether you like it or not until he gather,” Trump said. “But we will have to solve it because many people die.”

President Volodimir Zelensky has stated that the technical talks between Ukrainian and Russian negotiators in Istanbul can agree with one. The goal is to “at least try to try the first steps to end the war, in particular a ceasefire.”

Ankara left for Ankara on Thursday, he had previously been offered to meet, but only with Putin. As soon as he arrived in Turkey, he fired the Russian delegation as a “position proposals”, interrogating his members’ old and “can they make any decision?”

The Russian President, who floated direct talks with the Ukrainian side last week, confirmed late on Wednesday, on Wednesday that he would not participate, and instead he would send his less well-known adviser to Vladimir Medinsky.

Russia has previously sent high-level diplomats, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to hold talks with the United States in Riyadh.

Medinsky has caused negotiations to talks with Ukraine in Istanbul in early 2022, which has prepared several leaders to involve the current negotiations.

Delegations from Russia and Ukraine have arrived in Istanbul and Ankara without a clear indication where they would meet or what their mandate was their mandate.

Zelensky confirmed later on the day when his defense Minister Rustem Umarov would lead his delegation.

He urged Western allies to increase the pressure on Russia, including hard sanctions, if it continued to pull his feet on an unconditional ceasefire.

German Defense Minister Boris Pisthoros said that Putin was “trying to take the American president to the garden”, refusing to appear in Istanbul.

“I am quite convinced that the President of the United States cannot be happy with that,” Pistora said at a news conference in Berlin. He insisted that he was “plan,” if more sanctions fail to failure the European strategy, but said that “we cannot speak publicly about the B and C program before it is clear what happened.”

At the beginning of this week, the White House said that Trump Special Envoy Steve Wittoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ukraine, Keith Kellogg to leave for Turkey to take part in the talks.

Laura Petel Additional report in Berlin