Zelensky approved the composition of the Ukrainian delegation for negotiations with the Russian Federation in Istanbul

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has approved the composition of the Ukrainian delegation to participate in the negotiation process with international partners of Ukraine, as well as with representatives of the Russian Federation on the achievement of just and sustainable peace, which is planned for July 23 in Istanbul (Turkey).

According to the presidential decree, the delegation is headed by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, the Excellence of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umerov.

The delegation also included the adviser to the Head of the Presidential Office Oleksandr Bevz, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Serhiy Kislytsia, Deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Oleksandr Pid, Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence others.

In total, the Ukrainian delegation has 14 people.

Ukraine officially proposed the third round of negotiations with Russia. Subsequently, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky reported that the Secretary of the NSDC Rustem Umerov, who remained the head of the negotiation group with the Russian side, reported that the new meeting was planned on Wednesday, July 23.

Analysts of the American Institute for War Study (ISW) believe 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.

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.

At the beginning of a full -scale invasion in February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the “denacification” and “demilitarization” of Ukraine in February 2022. Now Putin and his subordinates claim the need to eliminate the so -called “root causes” of war. Among them, he calls the expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance to the East and Ukraine’s desire to join NATO in the future.