Rush of diplomatic calls follows Trump's offer to join potential Russia-Ukraine talks
The Hindu
Trump offers to join Ukraine-Russia talks, sparking flurry of diplomatic calls to end war, with uncertainty on participants.
U.S. and European diplomats went on a flurry of calls in the hours after U.S. President Donald Trump offered on Monday (May 12, 2025) to join prospective Ukraine-Russia talks later this week, trying to find a path that would bring an end to the war in Ukraine.
Mr. Donald Trump's surprise offer to join the talks on Thursday (May 15, 2025) in Istanbul came a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a fresh twist to the stop-start peace talks process, said he would travel to Turkey and wait to meet President Vladimir Putin there.
After President Trump's announcement, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the "way forward for a ceasefire" in Ukraine with European counterparts, including the Foreign Ministers of Britain and France, and the EU's Foreign Policy Chief, the State Department said on Monday (May 12, 2025).
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and his German and Polish counterparts were also on the call, according to the readout.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks late on May 12, 2025, with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan to discuss Moscow's direct talks with Kyiv - a proposal that came from Mr. Putin at the weekend, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
It remained unclear who would travel from Moscow to Istanbul to take part in the direct talks, which would be the first between the two sides since the early days of the war that Russia launched with its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
There has been no response from the Kremlin to Mr. Zelenskyy's offer to meet Mr. Putin in Istanbul, and Moscow has yet to comment on Mr. Trump's offer to join the talks.
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