Zelenskyy agrees to meet with Putin on Thursday

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to conscionable face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin successful Turkey connected Sunday.

Putin initially projected the Thursday gathering this weekend, and President Donald Trump prompted Zelenskyy to judge the offer. Putin said the talks successful Istanbul indispensable beryllium held without preconditions and with the extremity of lasting peace.

"We await a afloat and lasting ceasefire, starting from tomorrow, to supply the indispensable ground for diplomacy. There is nary constituent successful prolonging the killings. And I volition beryllium waiting for Putin successful Türkiye connected Thursday. Personally. I anticipation that this clip the Russians volition not look for excuses," Zelenskyy wrote.

Trump encouraged Zelenskyy to judge Putin's gathering earlier connected Sunday. Ukraine and Russia are presently nether a ceasefire marking the day of the extremity of World War II successful Europe.

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to conscionable with Putin connected Thursday successful Istanbul. (Getty Images)

"President Putin of Russia doesn’t privation to person a Cease Fire Agreement with Ukraine, but alternatively wants to conscionable connected Thursday, successful Turkey, to negociate a imaginable extremity to the BLOODBATH," Trump wrote connected societal media. "Ukraine should hold to this, IMMEDIATELY. At slightest they volition beryllium capable to find whether oregon not a woody is possible, and if it is not, European leaders, and the U.S., volition cognize wherever everything stands, and tin proceed accordingly!"

"I’m starting to uncertainty that Ukraine volition marque a woody with Putin, who’s excessively engaged celebrating the Victory of World War ll, which could not person been won (not adjacent close!) without the United States of America. HAVE THE MEETING, NOW!!!" He added.

Russian President Vladimir Putin volition conscionable face-to-face with Zelenskyy connected Thursday for the archetypal clip since the 2022 invasion. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin has frankincense acold offered few, if any, concessions but is present saying talks should code the basal causes of the war. He said helium would talk to Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan aboriginal connected Sunday astir facilitating the negotiations, which helium said could effect successful a ceasefire.

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"Our proposal, arsenic they say, is connected the table," Putin said. "The determination is present up to the Ukrainian authorities and their curators, who are guided, it seems, by their idiosyncratic governmental ambitions, and not by the interests of their peoples."

President Donald Trump says the talks betwixt Zelenskyy and Putin could beryllium an accidental for lasting peace. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Putin's connection for nonstop talks came hours aft European leaders demanded connected Saturday successful Kyiv that the Russian president hold to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire oregon look caller sanctions. But Putin dismissed attempts by immoderate European powers to contented what helium described arsenic "ultimatums."

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The Russian person said helium does not regularisation retired that Moscow and Kyiv volition hold connected "some caller truces, a caller ceasefire" during negotiations successful Turkey, saying that the talks would beryllium the archetypal measurement towards a "sustainable" peace.

Fox News' Landon Mion contributed to this report