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Talks
So we had some talks in Turkey. The Russians wanted to be the same as Ukraine. The Turks did not have any of it and remained in the room. There was an agreement for a prisoner exchange of a thousand per side. However, this is mostly a failure. This is per Important Stories:
“This is an absolutely expected failure — it could not have been otherwise.” The first talks between Moscow and Kiev since 2022 ended without result. According to experts , Putin does not want peace, but a deal with Trump
The first direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine since 2022 lasted less than 2 hours. Following their results, the heads of delegations announced the largest prisoner exchange since the beginning of the war: a thousand for a thousand people. And they agreed to continue the negotiations — each side must present its vision of the ceasefire. There is no specific deadline for these documents. The delegations also discussed a possible meeting between Putin and Zelensky — also without a specific date.
All details of the negotiations are known from the following sources:
📌According to Western agencies and Ukrainian politicians, Russia demanded that all four annexed regions, a significant part of which has not yet been captured, be handed over to it , including Kherson and Zaporizhia. Moscow refused a 30-day truce (Rada deputy Goncharenko, Axios source ).