The meeting of the President of Turkey ended in Ankara Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, which lasted two hours and 45 minutes in the presidential complex and was closed to the media, Anadolu Agency reported.
The meeting was also attended by the Turkish Minister of Defense Yasar Guler, Director of the National Intelligence Service Ibrahim Kalin and the President's Advisor for Foreign Policy and Security Akif Çagatay Kilic.
After the meeting in Ankara, the departure of the plane with the Ukrainian delegation to Istanbul is planned, noting that it has not yet been confirmed whether President Zelensky will personally attend the continuation of the peace talks with Russia.
The spokesman of the Russian consulate in Istanbul announced that the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, will make a statement to the media at 17.30:XNUMX Moscow time.
Diplomatic sources also announced that there is no talk of canceling the negotiations for now, while the presence of American representatives at the meeting has not yet been confirmed.
Trump: There is no progress in the negotiations until I meet with Putin
The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, said that no progress will be made in the peace talks on Ukraine until he personally meets with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
"Nothing will happen until Putin and I meet," Trump told reporters on the plane, shortly before landing in Dubai, the third stop of his Middle East visit.