The Kremlin said he expected “a very complicated discussions” with kyiv during the peace negotiations scheduled for Wednesday evening in Istanbul, removing the possibility of rapid diplomatic advances again to end the war.
The Russian presidency spokesperson Dmitri Peskov (archive image).
AFP“No one is expecting an easy path. Of course, it will be a very complicated discussion, “the spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov, told the press, repeating that the respective belligerents’ proposals to arrest the conflict were” diametrically opposed “.
This third session of direct exchanges in Istanbul which is to start around 7:00 p.m. locals (6:00 p.m. in Switzerland), according to a Turkish Foreign Ministry official, once again, under pressure from US President Donald Trump who gave Moscow, in mid-July, 50 days to reach an agreement with kyiv, under penalty of severe sanctions.
kyiv and its Western allies accuse the Kremlin of blocking negotiations by maintaining maximalist requests, while the Russian army, more numerous and better equipped, continues its bombings and its attacks on the front, where it still nibbles on the ground.