Trump had supplied to journey to Turkey for the talks whereas within the Gulf final week if Putin would additionally attend, however Putin despatched a staff of negotiators as an alternative.
The president has been pressuring Putin and Zelenskyy to conform to a ceasefire within the greater than three-year-old battle.
The Kremlin declined to touch upon the phrases that Russia had put ahead at Friday’s assembly. The talks lasted just one hour and 40 minutes and yielded an settlement to commerce 1,000 prisoners of battle on all sides. The 2 nations haven’t specified when that will occur.
Zelenskyy known as on Saturday for stronger sanctions on Moscow after a Russian drone killed 9 bus passengers within the Sumy area of northeastern Ukraine. “This was a deliberate killing of civilians,” he mentioned.
“Strain should be exerted on Russia to cease the killings. With out harder sanctions, with out stronger stress, Russia is not going to search actual diplomacy.”
Russia, which denies concentrating on civilians, mentioned it struck a navy goal in Sumy. Its defence ministry mentioned Russian troops had captured one other settlement in jap Ukraine.
Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke by phone with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and mentioned he welcomed the “constructive function” of the US in serving to to safe a resumption of talks between Russia and Ukraine.
A Russian international ministry assertion quoted Lavrov as saying contacts would proceed.
Rubio was quoted as telling the CBS information program Face the Nation that Lavrov mentioned the Russians have been “engaged on a collection of concepts and necessities that they’d have in an effort to transfer ahead with a ceasefire and additional negotiations”.
“I feel your query is, ‘Are they tapping us alongside?'” he mentioned within the interview to be broadcast on Sunday. “Nicely, that is what we’re looking for out.”
Rubio, who instructed reporters earlier in Rome that the Vatican may very well be a venue to facilitate additional Russia-Ukraine dialogue, instructed CBS it was a “very beneficiant provide that could be taken up on.”
