{"id":144102,"date":"2025-05-30T12:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T12:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/144102\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T12:36:09","slug":"ukraine-slams-russia-for-stalling-peace-talks-ahead-of-planned-second-meeting-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/144102\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine slams Russia for stalling peace talks ahead of planned second meeting \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kremlin on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1965027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed<\/a> a second Russia-Ukraine meeting in Istanbul on June 2. Moscow will deliver its memo on overcoming the \u201croot causes\u201d of the conflict at Monday\u2019s meeting, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday said Russian President Vladimir Putin was using delaying tactics. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia is prolonging the war and doing everything it can to simply deceive the countries that are still trying to influence Moscow with words rather than pressure,\u201d Zelenskyy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/news\/rosiya-zatyaguye-vijnu-i-robit-use-shob-prosto-obduriti-kray-98121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a video address<\/a> Thursday. \u201cWords don\u2019t work with Moscow,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has not yet definitively committed to joining the June 2 talks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian officials stressed that seeing Russia\u2019s peace memorandum before the next round of talks is crucial for the meeting to go productively. Russia previously promised to send a list of its negotiating positions but has not done so yet. <\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian officials said they have submitted a memorandum outlining Kyiv\u2019s vision for peace to both the U.S. and Russia. Keith Kellogg, U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/video\/gen-keith-kellogg-trump-frustrated-russias-level-unreasonableness-122316532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed the receipt<\/a> of the Ukrainian document, calling it \u201cpretty good\u201d and \u201creasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kremlin on Wednesday proposed a second Russia-Ukraine meeting in Istanbul on June 2. Moscow will deliver its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[473,32,2000,299,36,1824,9204,2597,809,332,811,10243,461,657,15,49,333,2601,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-144102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-defense","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-keith-kellogg","15":"tag-military","16":"tag-negotiations","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-security","19":"tag-sergey-lavrov","20":"tag-turkey","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-vladimir-putin","25":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","26":"tag-war","27":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114596818685492413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144102","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=144102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}