“The ISW report states that Russian officials continue to simulate interest in bona fide negotiations”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
The ISW report states that Russian officials continue to simulate interest in bona fide negotiations, and Moscow’s decision to send the same middle -level negotiation group on the upcoming third round of negotiations indicates that Russia’s lack of interest in peace negotiations remains unchanged.
Ukraine officially proposed the third round of negotiations with Russia against the background of speculation in Ukrainian and Russian information spaces. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said on July 21 that the Secretary of the National Security and Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umerov recently proposed to hold a third round of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul. According to the media, this meeting can take place in the coming days.
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on July 21 that the Russian delegation in the third round of negotiations would be in the same composition that participated in previous negotiations in Istanbul in May and June 2025. Peskov also stated that Russian leader Vladimir Putin seeks to “translate the Ukrainian settlement into a peaceful river”, but the goals of Moscow remain unchanged.
For the last time, Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul on June 2 and only concluded agreements on the exchange of prisoners of war due to Russia’s refusal to give Ukrainian negotiations a Memorandum with its conditions of peaceful settlement on the eve of negotiations.
Since then, he has repeatedly declared an interest in the third round of negotiations, with Russian officials in June and July 2025 repeated the ancient demands of Russia, which are equivalent to Ukraine’s capitulations.