Delegations of Russia and Ukraine are due to hold direct talks in Istanbul, Türkiye, for the first time since April 2022. Our correspondent Yunus Soner brings us all the details in the following report.
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00:00delegations of russia and ukraine are due to hold direct talks in istanbul turkiye for the first time
00:05since april 2022. our correspondent you know sooner brings us all the details in the following report
00:13hello good evening from istanbul turkiye from the front of the presidential working office
00:19here in dolma bahçe where today the delegations of russia and ukraine were supposed to meet
00:27the first time since april 2022 to find the solution out of the conflict now at this hour
00:35the last meeting that is scheduled to happen here in this building is one between the russian
00:41delegation and the turkish foreign minister hakan fidan the ukrainian russian meeting has not
00:48occurred today and is expected to happen tomorrow during the day the ukrainian president volodymyr
00:54zelinski who has repeatedly first demanded the attendance of russian president vladimir putin
01:01to this meeting and then disqualified the russian delegation as not being representative finally
01:09agreed to send the delegation to meet its russian counterpart zelensky said that he did so out of
01:16respect for president trump and president erdogan still the russian delegation is headed by vladimir
01:24medinsky who was the head of the delegation back in 2022 as well so the claim of zelensky is hard to
01:34understand notwithstanding this meeting is supposed to happen tomorrow for the time being both sides the
01:42russian and the ukrainian side have confirmed their participation tomorrow in this meeting at the same
01:48time there have been a lot of back door diplomacy remembering reminding that there is also a nato
01:55summit taking place in the city of antalya 700 kilometers away from istanbul where all foreign
02:02ministers of nato countries including the u.s secretary of state uh marco rubio are attending and we
02:09heard from sources of the turkish foreign ministry that there is also a delegation here in town from the
02:16united states which will not attend probably the talks itself but which is issuing pressure and trying
02:25to force the ukrainian delegation to attend these talks in that sense donald trump has again first said
02:35he would come to istanbul if there's significant progress on friday and then he added later on that
02:43he does not expect a solution uh out of the ukraine conflict until he meets personally with russian
02:50president putin now for the time being the the turkish foreign minister meets uh the russian delegation
02:57he has also during the day met the ukrainian delegation so turkey is kind of mediating in this
03:05effort of getting the two countries together to sit at one table and the results will be more visible by tomorrow
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