{"id":107005,"date":"2025-05-16T18:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107005\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T18:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T18:57:10","slug":"ukraine-live-putin-threatened-zelensky-with-eternal-war-during-crunch-peace-talks-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107005\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine LIVE: Putin &#8216;threatened Zelensky with eternal war&#8217; during crunch peace talks | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> held their first direct peace talks in three years Friday, gathering in Istanbul for Turkish-brokered negotiations, but officials and observers expected them to yield little immediate progress on stopping the more than three-year war.<\/p>\n<p>A Ukrainian delegation led by Defence Minister Rustem Umerov sat down with a low-level Russian team headed by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, according to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi, who published a photo of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The officials present sat around a U-shaped table, with the Russians and Ukrainians facing each other. A senior Ukrainian official close to the talks said that Kyiv\u2019s delegation was prepared to \u201cachieve a lot today\u201d and with a real mandate to resolve key issues.<\/p>\n<p>The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make official statements, said the outcome hinges on whether Moscow is equally serious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia and Ukraine held their first direct peace talks in three years Friday, gathering in Istanbul for Turkish-brokered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[32,2000,299,22712,7661,657,17961,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-107005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-peace-talks","12":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-ukraine-conflict","15":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114519044500417528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}