Zelenskyy urges Trump to make Putin meeting happen
The Hindu
Ukraine's President Zelenskyy seeks Trump's help for Putin meeting in Turkey amid escalating tensions and calls for ceasefire.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday (May 13, 2025) urged U.S. counterpart Donald Trump to help secure a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Turkiye on Thursday (May 15, 2025), while accusing the Russian leader of not seriously wanting to end the war.
Mr. Zelenskyy said in Kyiv that the West should impose massive sanctions if Mr. Putin skips the meeting, emphasising that he would do “everything” possible to make it happen and secure a ceasefire.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will be in the US delegation at the talks in Istanbul which “could be some pretty good results,” Mr. Trump said in Riyadh as he started a four-day Middle East trip.
The Kremlin has refused to say whether Mr. Putin will travel to Turkiye, after he himself proposed Russia-Ukraine talks in a weekend Kremlin address.
“This is his war,” Mr. Zelenskyy said, “therefore, the negotiations should be with him”.
Any meeting between Russian and Ukrainian officials would be the first direct negotiations since the early months of Moscow’s February 2022 invasion.
Mr. Trump came to office in January promising a swift end to the war, but has become increasingly frustrated at what he sees as the failure of Kyiv and Moscow to compromise over the bloodshed.
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