On the shores of the Bosphorus, in front of the luxurious Palais in Dolmabahçe, mingle journalists waiting for the start of negotiations and residents trying in the neighboring sea station. These parallel lives ignore themselves as ignored on Thursday, May 15, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky. Unsurprisingly, the Russian president refused to respond to the challenge launched by his Ukrainian counterpart of a meeting in Istanbul, in order to initiate direct negotiations between kyiv and Moscow, three years after the large -scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
The Russian president did not “Not planned for the moment” To go to Türkiye, said its spokesperson from the Kremlin. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators have also avoided all day. Friday, each party was to speak with Marco Rubio, the American secretary of state, and the head of Turkish diplomacy, Hakan Fidan, without an extended meeting, at four, being at this stage planned. At the same time of members of the two delegations, the blur still reigned, Thursday evening, on the exact methods of these trilateral exchanges.
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Source: Lemonde