{"id":1266089,"date":"2025-07-21T20:59:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraine-is-preparing-for-a-new-meeting-with-russia-in-istanbul-the-date-and-main-topics-of-the-negotiations-have-been-announced\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:59:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:59:48","slug":"ukraine-is-preparing-for-a-new-meeting-with-russia-in-istanbul-the-date-and-main-topics-of-the-negotiations-have-been-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-is-preparing-for-a-new-meeting-with-russia-in-istanbul-the-date-and-main-topics-of-the-negotiations-have-been-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine is preparing for a new meeting with Russia in Istanbul: the date and main topics of the negotiations have been announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a possible meeting of Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Istanbul on July 23. The focus of the negotiations is the release of prisoners, the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and the preparation of a potential summit of state leaders to discuss ending the war.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He spoke about this in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/news\/zaprovadzhuyemo-moratorij-zaboronu-na-perevirki-biznesiv-i-v-99105\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a video message<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> According to Zelensky, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov informed him about the preliminary approval of the date and key topics of the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Umerov reported that the meeting is planned for Wednesday. There will be more details tomorrow,&#8221; the president noted.<\/p>\n<p> Zelensky also announced three priority areas on which the Ukrainian side will focus:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> <strong>Release of prisoners of war<\/strong> held in Russian captivity;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> <strong>Return of Ukrainian children<\/strong> illegally deported to the Russian Federation;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> <strong>Preparation of a direct meeting of the leaders of the states<\/strong> , which, according to Zelensky, could be a turning point in the issue of ending the war.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> The Head of State emphasized that a personal conversation between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia has the potential to provide a real breakthrough in the search for peace.<\/p>\n<p> Zelensky also called on Ukraine&#8217;s representatives abroad to more actively convey Kyiv&#8217;s official position on the format of the negotiations to international partners and to strengthen support from the international community.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, Istanbul is not the first time that it has served as a platform for Ukrainian-Russian talks. Turkey has stated its readiness to facilitate diplomatic dialogue and provide a platform for negotiations between the parties. It is expected that the details of the delegations, as well as the agenda of the meeting, will be announced in the near future.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, the media reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-ta-rosiia-hotuiutsia-do-novykh-perehovoriv-u-stambuli-zmi\/\">the Ukrainian and Russian negotiating teams would meet in Istanbul<\/a> in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p> It is worth recalling that on June 2, the second round of technical negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations took place in Istanbul. <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-ta-rosiia-hotuiutsia-do-zustrichi-u-stambuli-vsi-podrobytsi-druhoho-raundu-perehovoriv\/\"><strong>\u201cPryamy\u201d<\/strong> has collected all the information known about the meeting between Ukraine and the Russian Federation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> It should be noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rf-pid-chas-perehovoriv-pohrozhuvala-zakhopyty-kharkiv-ta-sumy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the first negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations took place in Istanbul on May 16.<\/a> The Russians put forward unrealistic demands during the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a possible meeting of Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Istanbul on July 23. The focus of the negotiations is the release of prisoners, the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and the preparation of a potential summit of state leaders to discuss ending the war. He spoke about this in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1230625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76885],"class_list":["post-1266089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1230625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}