“I don’t think we’re going to have a breakthrough here until President Trump and President Putin interact directly on this topic,” he stated following a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in southern Turkey.
Although Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged that Ukraine will send a delegation to the Istanbul negotiations, he criticized Moscow’s “low-level” group.
Its leader, Vladimir Medinsky, a presidential assistant, maintained that the Kremlin team possessed “all the necessary competencies”.
Trump, who is traveling to the Middle East, had earlier in the day implied that major advancements in peace negotiations were unlikely until he and Putin had a face-to-face meeting.
He responded when asked if he was dissatisfied with the caliber of the Russian delegation by the news crew on Air Force One.
