{"id":27408,"date":"2025-05-14T21:54:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=27408"},"modified":"2025-05-14T21:54:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:54:43","slug":"vladimir-putin-to-skip-russia-ukraine-talks-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=27408","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin to skip Russia-Ukraine talks in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=a6120041-221c-4227-a2e2-c69c14bd6aa3&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced he will not travel to Turkey to take part in talks between Moscow and Kyiv on Thursday, despite pleas from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to attend.<\/p>\n<p>White House officials said that US President Donald Trump will also not go to Turkey for the talks after Putin announced the list of Russian attendees, all of whom are relatively low-level officials.<\/p>\n<p>Putin first proposed holding direct talks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a43c7876-7d7b-4d1c-96fd-98b60a1c6223\" data-trackable=\"link\">between Russia and Ukraine<\/a> \u2014 \u201cwithout preconditions\u201d \u2014 last Sunday, in response to a demand from Ukraine\u2019s western allies for a 30-day ceasefire in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/war-in-ukraine\" data-trackable=\"link\">the war<\/a>. He said the negotiations would be held on Thursday in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said the purpose of the talks would be \u201cto remove the root causes of the conflict and move towards creating a long-term, durable peace in a historical perspective\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy said he was willing to attend, but only if Putin also showed up, because \u201ceverything in Russia depends\u201d on the Russian leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I said that on [Thursday] I will go to Turkey and I\u2019m ready to meet Putin and an end to the war was through direct talks with him,\u201d Zelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had hailed Putin\u2019s initiative, describing it as a \u201cpotentially great day for Russia and Ukraine\u201d. The president, who is currently on an official visit to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, had also said he might make a detour to Turkey to attend the talks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a6120041-221c-4227-a2e2-c69c14bd6aa3\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}