Zelensky said in Kyiv that the West should impose massive sanctions if Putin skips the meeting, emphasising that he would do “everything” possible to make it happen and secure a ceasefire.
The Kremlin has refused to say whether Putin will travel to Turkey, after he himself proposed Russia-Ukraine talks in a weekend Kremlin address.
Any meeting between Russian and Ukrainian officials would be the first direct negotiations since the early months of Moscow’s February 2022 invasion.
Trump said Monday that he was “thinking” about going to the talks.
‘Strongest’ sanctions
Russian airstrikes killed two people in Ukraine’s eastern region of Kharkiv, which is on the border with Russia, authorities said.
Putin’s spokesman refused to say who Moscow would send to the talks.
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Russia would use the talks to address its key aims and the “root causes” of the conflict -- the “de-Nazification” of Ukraine and the “incorporation of new territories into the Russian Federation”.
Putin proposed Russia-Ukraine talks after Kyiv and European countries urged Moscow to agree to a full and unconditional 30-day ceasefire starting Monday.
Putin doesn’t ‘dare’ meet
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned Russia on Tuesday that it would face fresh European sanctions if there was no “real progress” this week towards peace in Ukraine, as he urged Putin to meet Zelensky.
The European Union has already imposed 16 rounds of sanctions on Russia since Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
The EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas questioned whether Putin had the nerve to show up.
Zelensky said he would meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Wednesday or Thursday and was ready to meet Putin either there or in Istanbul.
Contact between the warring sides has been extremely limited since, mainly dedicated to humanitarian issues like prisoner-of-war exchanges and the return of killed soldiers’ bodies.
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