{"id":6906,"date":"2025-05-11T06:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T06:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=6906"},"modified":"2025-05-11T06:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T06:04:42","slug":"putin-proposes-direct-peace-talks-with-ukraine-in-istanbul-on-may-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=6906","title":{"rendered":"Putin proposes direct peace talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed direct peace talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15, offering to negotiate &#8220;without preconditions&#8221; in a bid to end more than three years of war.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes just hours after leaders from Ukraine, the UK, France, Germany, and Poland called for an immediate 30-day unconditional ceasefire starting Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said the proposed talks aim to &#8220;eliminate the root causes of the conflict&#8221; and explore the possibility of a new ceasefire. He referenced previous negotiations held in Istanbul in 2022, which failed to reach a resolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not Russia that broke off negotiations in 2022. It was Kyiv,\u201d Putin stated, urging Ukraine to return to the table.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian leader emphasised that the proposal was made independently of European demands, which he criticized as \u201cultimatums\u201d backed by \u201canti-Russian rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>European leaders, with support from US President Donald Trump, warned of \u201cmassive sanctions\u201d if Moscow fails to engage in the proposed ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has yet to respond to the latest proposal, though President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has previously said talks could only follow a full ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has faced mounting pressure from both Western governments and Trump, who seeks to position himself as a peace broker ahead of the US election.<\/p>\n<p>Putin added that he would speak with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to help facilitate the talks.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, mutual accusations of ceasefire violations continue, casting doubt on both sides&#8217; commitment to a truce.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict, sparked by Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion in February 2022, has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions, becoming Europe\u2019s deadliest war since World War II.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed direct peace talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15, offering to negotiate &#8220;without preconditions&#8221; in a bid to end more than three years of war. The announcement comes just hours after leaders from Ukraine, the UK, France, Germany, and Poland called for an immediate 30-day unconditional ceasefire starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}