Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, sent a lower-ranking committee to carry Friday’s first immediate peace talks with Ukraine in three years, according to Nato chief Mark Rutte. After the Soviet leader rejected Volodymyr Zelensky’s request to fulfill at the national level in Turkey, the expectations for the talks, which were first put on hold by Putin, fell. At a gathering of Western leaders who were supposed to squabble with Zelensky, Rutte told reporters in Tirana that “he knows very well that the ball is in his judge, that he is in trouble, that he made a huge mistake by sending this low-level delegation.” Rutte said,” I think all the stress is now on Putin.” Rutte said,” The ball is evidently in his part of the field right now, in his judge.” He must perform ball, he says. At Friday’s meeting of the European Political Community ( EPC ), which brings together the members of the European Union and about 20 other nations, leaders were looking for ways to further increase pressure on Moscow. In order to start the dialogue that is taking place between the warring sides in Turkey, Zelensky was scheduled to tackle the gathering’s starting treatment. Vladimir Medinsky, a hardline adviser to Vladimir Putin, is leading the delegation’s group to Istanbul, where the two countries ‘ failed negotiations in 2022 ended. Rustem Umerov, the defense secretary from the Crimea island that Russia annexed in 2014, is on the part of Ukraine, along with a number of deputy-level leaders.
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