{"id":123335,"date":"2025-05-22T19:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/123335\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T19:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:36:14","slug":"no-new-direct-russia-ukraine-peace-talks-are-scheduled-kremlin-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/123335\/","title":{"rendered":"No new direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks are scheduled, Kremlin says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia and Ukraine have no direct peace talks scheduled, the Kremlin said Thursday, nearly a week after their first face-to-face session<\/a> since shortly after Moscow\u2019s invasion in 2022 and days after U.S. President Donald Trump said they would start ceasefire negotiations \u201cimmediately.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no concrete agreement about the next meetings,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. \u201cThey are yet to be agreed upon.\u201d<\/p>\n

During two hours of talks in Istanbul on May 16, Kyiv and Moscow agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war each, in what would be their biggest such swap<\/a>. Apart from that step, the meeting delivered no significant breakthrough.<\/p>\n

Several months of intensified U.S. and European pressure on the two sides to accept a ceasefire and negotiate a settlement have yielded little progress. Meanwhile, Russia is readying a summer offensive<\/a> to capture more Ukrainian land, Ukrainian government and military analysts say.<\/p>\n

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Russian and Ukrainian delegations attend talks at the Dolmabache palace, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, May 16, 2025. (Ramil Sitdikov, Sputnik Pool Photo via AP)<\/p>\n

Russian and Ukrainian delegations attend talks at the Dolmabache palace, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, May 16, 2025. (Ramil Sitdikov, Sputnik Pool Photo via AP)<\/p>\n

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Putin\u2019s proposals<\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier this week that Moscow would \u201cpropose and is ready to work with\u201d Ukraine on a \u201cmemorandum\u201d outlining the framework for \u201ca possible future peace treaty.\u201d Putin has effectively rejected a 30-day ceasefire proposal that Ukraine has accepted. He has linked the possibility to a halt in Ukraine\u2019s mobilization effort and a freeze on Western arms shipments to Kyiv as part of a comprehensive settlement.<\/p>\n

European leaders have accused Putin of dragging his feet in peace efforts while he tries to press his bigger army\u2019s battlefield initiative and capture more Ukrainian land.<\/p>\n

The major prisoner swap is a \u201cquite laborious process\u201d that \u201crequires some time,\u201d Peskov said.<\/p>\n

But he added: \u201cThe work is continuing at a quick pace, everybody is interested in doing it quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peskov told Russia\u2019s Interfax news agency that Moscow had provided Kyiv with a list of prisoners it wants released. \u201cWe have not yet received a counter list from Kyiv. We are waiting,\u201d he told Interfax.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that preparations are underway for the potential prisoner exchange, which he described as \u201cperhaps the only real result\u201d of the talks in Turkey.<\/p>\n

Peskov disputed a report Thursday in The Wall Street Journal that Trump told European leaders after his phone call with Putin on Monday that the Russian leader wasn\u2019t interested in talks because he thinks that Moscow is winning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know what Trump told Putin, we don\u2019t know what Trump told the Europeans. We know President Trump\u2019s official statement,\u201d Peskov said. \u201cWhat we know contrasts with what was written in the article you mentioned.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian servicemen of the 127th Territorial Defence Brigade fire KS-19 100mm gun towards Russian positions near Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo\/Yevhen Titov)<\/p>\n

Ukrainian servicemen of the 127th Territorial Defence Brigade fire KS-19 100mm gun towards Russian positions near Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo\/Yevhen Titov)<\/p>\n

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Russian capital targeted by drones for the second night<\/p>\n

Apart from the continuing war of attrition along the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line, which has killed tens of thousands of troops on both sides, Russia and Ukraine have been firing dozens of long-range drones at each other\u2019s territory almost daily.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said it shot down 105 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 35 over the Moscow region. It was the second straight night that Kyiv\u2019s forces have targeted the Russian capital.<\/p>\n

More than 160 flights were delayed at three of Moscow\u2019s four main airports, the city\u2019s transport prosecutor said, as officials grounded planes citing concerns for passenger safety.<\/p>\n

The attack prompted some regions to turn off mobile internet signals, including the Oryol region southwest of Moscow, which was targeted heavily Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Defense Ministry claimed it downed 485 Ukrainian drones over several regions and the Black Sea between late Tuesday and early Thursday, including 63 over the Moscow region, in one of the biggest drone attacks.<\/p>\n

It was not possible to verify the numbers.<\/p>\n

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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out the fire following Russia\u2019s drone attack in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)<\/p>\n

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out the fire following Russia\u2019s drone attack in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)<\/p>\n

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Russia seeks a buffer zone on the border<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian air force said Russia launched 128 drones overnight. Among the targets were Ukraine\u2019s central Dnipropetrovsk region, damaging an industrial facility, power lines, and several private homes, regional Gov. Serhii Lysak said on Telegram.<\/p>\n

In Kyiv, debris from a Russian drone fell onto the grounds of a school in the capital\u2019s Darnytskyi district, according to Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian shelling in Russia\u2019s Kursk region killed a 50-year-old man and injured two others, acting regional Gov. Alexander Khinshtein said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Putin visited the Kursk region<\/a> on Tuesday for the first time since Moscow claimed that it drove Ukrainian forces out of the area last month. Kyiv officials denied the claim.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the liberation of our territory, the border region is still subject to enemy attacks,\u201d Khinshtein warned residents on Telegram. \u201cIt is still dangerous to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putin has said Russian forces have orders to create a \u201csecurity buffer zone\u201d along the border.<\/p>\n

That would help prevent Ukraine from striking areas inside Russia with artillery, Putin told a government meeting, but he gave no details of where the proposed buffer zone would be or how far it would stretch.<\/p>\n

Putin said a year ago that a Russian offensive at the time aimed to create a buffer zone<\/a> in Ukraine\u2019s northeastern Kharkiv region. That could have helped protect Russia\u2019s Belgorod border region, where frequent Ukrainian attacks have embarrassed the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

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Follow AP\u2019s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia and Ukraine have no direct peace talks scheduled, the Kremlin said Thursday, nearly a week after their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[54806,5293,7667,32,4179,8614,10546,2301,285,19746,332,7659,7661,657,7662,333,2601,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-123335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-alexander-khinshtein","9":"tag-diplomacy","10":"tag-dmitry-peskov","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-international-agreements","14":"tag-kyiv","15":"tag-moscow","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-prisoner-exchange","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-russia-government","20":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-ukraine-government","23":"tag-vladimir-putin","24":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","25":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114553171951967350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123335","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=123335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}