{"id":153584,"date":"2025-05-16T15:19:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T11:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=153584"},"modified":"2025-05-16T16:48:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T12:48:19","slug":"russian-ukrainian-negotiations-underway-in-istanbul-the-most-important-developments-at-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/153584\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian-Ukrainian negotiations underway in Istanbul: The most important developments at the moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Currently, negotiations are taking place in Istanbul between Russia and Ukraine, with Turkey acting as a third party. The most important developments at this moment are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The negotiations were initiated by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. He delivered a welcoming speech, noting that he was pleased to see the delegations in Istanbul.<\/li>\n<li>Fidan stated that the delegations from Russia and Ukraine should decide for themselves whether to reach peace or to &ldquo;continue the destructive conflict.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li>According to media reports, Kyiv will discuss the possible meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy during these negotiations.<\/li>\n<li>Before the start of talks with Russia in Istanbul, the head of Ukraine&rsquo;s delegation, Umerov, again raised the old condition for a ceasefire.<\/li>\n<li>In the first half of the day, there was a meeting between delegations from the US, Ukraine, and Turkey.<\/li>\n<li>Following this meeting, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with national security advisers from the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.<\/li>\n<li>Trump has spoken several times about the possibility of meeting with Putin, saying that it will happen as soon as possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, negotiations are taking place in Istanbul between Russia and Ukraine, with Turkey acting as a third party. The most important developments at this moment are: The negotiations were initiated by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. He delivered a welcoming speech, noting that he was pleased to see the delegations in Istanbul. Fidan stated that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":153556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,82,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-turkey","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}