“US President Donald Trump announced a telephone conversation with the ruler of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on Monday on May 19, and after that – a conversation with President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and NATO allies.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
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US President Donald Trump announced a telephone conversation with the ruler of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on Monday on May 19, and after that – a conversation with President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and NATO allies.
Source: Trump on his social network TRUTH SOCIAL
Details: Trump wrote that on Monday at 10 am (17:00 in Kiev) there will be a conversation with Putin, during which he will discuss efforts to end the war and trade issues.
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He noted that he would then talk to Zelensky and later, together with Zelensky – with “different members of NATO”.
Trump expressed his hope that “it will be a productive day” that the ceasefire will take place and the war would end.
Prehistory:
- On May 16, for the first time in Istanbul for the first time in Istanbul, direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine took place.
- Russia has sent a low -level delegation headed by Putin’s assistant Vladimir Medinsky.
- According to media reports, the Russians in Istanbul demanded that US representatives did not negotiate with the Ukrainian side, and nominated a number of deliberately unacceptable conditions in Ukraine.
- The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umerov stated that during the negotiations in Istanbul Ukrainian and Russian delegations discussed the possibility of large -scale exchange of prisoners in the format “thousand per thousand”.
- According to Bloomberg, during a meeting in Istanbul, representatives of the Russian side voiced a number of requirements for the Ukrainian delegation, naming the conditions under which Moscow is ready to stop the fire. Among them – the refusal of Ukraine to territories and claims on repair.