MOSCOW, May 15. /TASS/. Vladimir Zelensky has confirmed that a decision on the Ukrainian delegation's talks with Russia in Istanbul will be made after his meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara.
"We will think about what we will do, what our steps will be, after talking to President Erdogan," he said upon his arrival in Ankara, adding that "the level of the Russian delegation" was allegedly officially unknown to him.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on May 11 that Moscow proposes that the Ukrainian authorities resume without preconditions the direct talks they interrupted in 2022, on May 15 in Istanbul to address the root causes of the conflict and possibly achieve a cease-fire. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said later that there is absolute logic in the choice of venue: the talks are resuming where they were interrupted at the insistence of Britain, which exerted pressure on the Kiev regime three years ago.