Zelansky of Ukraine says he will wait for Russian leader Putin in Ankara on Thursday for talks

Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelanski said on Tuesday that he would wait for the Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Turkish capital this week to hold a face-to-face talk about the war more than three years. Putin has not yet said whether he will be in talks, which US President Donald Trump has urged both sides to participate as part of Washington’s efforts to stop the fight. Zelansky told reporters in Kiev that he would be in Ankara on Thursday to conduct talks. He said that he has planned to meet Turkish President Rape Taip Erdogan and both will wait for Putin to come. Zelansky said that if Putin selects Istanbul to hold a meeting, the two leaders will travel there.Russia launched 10 Shahd and Dicky Drone in Ukraine in night attacks, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Tuesday that this year in its smallest drone bombing, as the warning countries are ready for possible peace talks in Turkey. The Kremlin did not directly respond to the challenge of Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelanski for Russian leader Vladimir Putin at a conversation table in Istanbul on Thursday. Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov refused for the second straight day on Tuesday to tell reporters whether Putin would travel to Istanbul and who would represent Russia in a possible talks. “As soon as the President considers it necessary, we will make a declaration,” said Peskov. Russia has said that it will send a delegation to Istanbul without any precondition. President Donald Trump has been pressurizing both sides to come to power in January with the promise to end the war. Military analysts say the two sides are creating a spring-summer campaign on the battlefield, where a war war has killed thousands of soldiers on both sides with a front line of about 1,000 kilometers (620-miles). The Institute for the Study of Washing, a Washington Think Tank, said on Monday that Russia is quickly filling the front-line units with new recruitments to maintain the initiative of the battlefield., Zelansky will not hold a meeting with any Russian officials other than Putin in Istanbul, Zelanski’s advisor Mychelo Podolik on Tuesday said at a YouTube show run by prominent Russian journalists in exile. Podolik said that the lower level interaction would “pull” any peace process. European leaders have recently accused Putin of pulling their feet in peace efforts, while he tries to suppress the battlefield of his large army and occupy more Ukrainian land. Russia effectively dismissed an unconditional 30-day ceasefire demanded by Ukraine and Western European leaders from Monday, when it removed more than 100 drones in Ukraine. Putin offered direct peace talks instead. But whether a ceasefire should come before the negotiations start, it was emphasized. Ukraine’s presidential chief Andrey Yarmak said on Tuesday, “Ukraine is ready for any format of talks with Russia, but a ceasefire must come first.” “Ukrainians are attacking the Ukrainians by Russian missiles and drones, while the conversation is impossible, while the conversation is impossible.” Putin has repeatedly questioned the validity of the Ukrainian government, especially Zelancesi himself said that his term has ended last year. Under the Constitution of Ukraine, national elections are illegal for the country, while it is under martial law, as is now. In another complexity, a Ukrainian decree from 2022 is out of conversation with Putin. US State Secretary Marco Rubio spoke with senior diplomats from the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Poland who were meeting in London, “to make ahead for a ceasefire and peace for peace in Ukraine,” Spokesperson Tammy Bruce said. Those European countries promised more sanctions on Russia if it did not comply with a complete ceasefire that Ukraine had accepted from Monday, but did not announce additional punitive measures.