Against the backdrop of negotiations in Istanbul, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, together with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz and the premiers of Poland and Great Britain Donald Tuski and Kir Stalmar, respectively, called US President Donald Trump. This was announced by the press secretary of the head of the Ukrainian state Sergei Nikiforov "

“The details will be soon,” Nikiforov added.

The speaker did not specify the topic of the conversation. How much this conversation lasted is also unknown. Now Zelensky, together with other European leaders, is located in the Albanian tyrant.

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Note that on May 16, Istanbul is negotiating between Ukrainian and Russian delegations. In particular, according to media reports, the Russians in exchange for a 30-day ceasefire demanded the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the occupied territories of the Russian Federation, and also staged other unrealistic requirements.

The Minister of Defense and the head of the Ukrainian delegation Rustem Umarov said that during negotiations with Russians in Istanbul discussed the exchange in the " According to him, the parties are working on "

The Ukrainian delegation at a meeting with the Russian Federation was headed by the Minister of Defense Rustem Umarov, it also included the First Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislitsa and the leaders of military structures. On the Russian side, the head of the delegation was Putin's assistant Vladimir Medinsky, who in 2022 also headed the group of the Russian Federation at the negotiations of Kyiv and Moscow in Istanbul.