{"id":154009,"date":"2025-06-03T05:35:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T05:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154009\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T05:35:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T05:35:43","slug":"ukraine-aligns-positions-with-germany-italy-and-uk-ahead-of-talks-with-russia-in-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154009\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine aligns positions with Germany, Italy and UK ahead of talks with Russia in Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian delegation. Photo: Tykhyi on X (Twitter)<\/p>\n<p>First Deputy Foreign Minister Serhii Kyslytsia and Ukrainian delegation member Oleksandr Bevz have met with representatives of Ukraine\u2019s European partners \u2013 Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom \u2013 ahead of negotiations with the Russian delegation in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpoxUkraineMFA\/status\/1929464428233121854\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> On 2 June in Istanbul, Kyslytsia and Bevz held talks with representatives of Germany, Italy and the UK. The parties coordinated their positions ahead of a meeting of the Ukrainian and Russian delegations later today. The Ukrainian delegation reaffirmed the country\u2019s commitment to peace efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian side outlined the agenda items in detail, including a meeting of the two leaders, a full ceasefire and humanitarian confidence-building measures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">On 1 June, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/06\/1\/7515081\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approved the updated composition<\/a> of Ukraine\u2019s delegation for negotiations with Russia in Istanbul aimed at achieving a just and lasting peace.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">As in the previous delegation, it is headed by Defence Minister Rustem Umierov. However, Oleksii Malovatskyi, head of the International and Operational Law Directorate at the General Staff\u2019s Legal Department, was excluded.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Three new members \u2013 Andrii Fomin, Yevhenii Ostrianskyi and Yurii Kovbasa \u2013 have been added.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">On 2 June, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/06\/2\/7515141\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukrainian delegation arrived in T\u00fcrkiye<\/a> for the second round of negotiations with the Russian delegation, scheduled to begin at around 13:00 Kyiv time.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian delegation. Photo: Tykhyi on X (Twitter) First Deputy Foreign Minister Serhii Kyslytsia and Ukrainian delegation member Oleksandr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,809,8621,12474],"class_list":{"0":"post-154009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-negotiations","12":"tag-russo-ukrainian-war","13":"tag-trkiye"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154009","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=154009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}