Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha stated on Sunday that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is prepared to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in T\u00fcrkiye. Speaking to Ukrinform on the sidelines of the 5th Antalya Diplomacy Forum, Sybiha said: \u201cWe have appealed to T\u00fcrkiye to consider the possibility of organizing a meeting at the level of President Zelenskyy and Putin, with the possible participation of Presidents Erdogan and Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n
T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s unique diplomatic role<\/p>\n
Sybiha praised T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s diplomatic capabilities, stating that Ankara has the ability to make \u201ctruly unprecedented, unique achievements in diplomacy.\u201d He added that Kyiv has \u201ceffective proposals\u201d and hopes T\u00fcrkiye can \u201cplay and accelerate the peace process\u201d surrounding the Russia-Ukraine war. T\u00fcrkiye previously hosted peace talks in the initial weeks of the war and again in mid-2025, with three rounds of renewed talks in Istanbul last year producing major prisoner swaps and draft memorandums.<\/p>\n
Talks paused amid US focus on Iran<\/p>\n
Under US mediation, Moscow and Kyiv held three rounds of peace talks earlier this year in Abu Dhabi and Geneva, but negotiations have since been paused, with both sides attributing the halt to Washington\u2019s focus on Iran. Sybiha also described T\u00fcrkiye as a \u201cstrategic partner\u201d of Ukraine, noting growing trade turnover and untapped potential for cooperation, including in defense. He added that he received an unusually high number of meeting requests at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha stated on Sunday that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is prepared to meet with Russian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[1854,334,329,18574,5670,5596,330,328,2396],"class_list":{"0":"post-33447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vladimir-putin","8":"tag-andrii-sybiha","9":"tag-putin","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-sybiha","12":"tag-talks","13":"tag-turkiye","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-vladimir-putin","16":"tag-zelenskyy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116433334005519707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}