Diplomatic moves intensify: Türkiye hosts talks amid new EU sanctions on Russia

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*Türkiye, Russia-Ukraine talks begin in Istanbul *Istanbul hosts three-way talks between Ukraine, U.S. and Türkiye *Germany-Belgium, EU to impose 17th package of sanctions on Russia

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00:00we now begin with the information the first direct talks since 2022 between the delegations

00:13of russia and ukraine are taking place in istanbul chaired by turkish foreign minister

00:18hakan fidan and the delegations headed by presidential secretary blader merinsky on

00:24the russian side and defense minister rustem umerov representing ukraine are gathering at the dolmavash

00:32palace the meeting an initiative of russian president vladimir putin was originally scheduled

00:37for thursday but was postponed after ukrainian president volodymyr zlensky refused to participate

00:45in this context while kicking off the reunion the turkish foreign minister stressed the importance

00:50of the event and called on all parts to seize the opportunity to advance on the path towards peace

01:06as you appreciate at this stage there are two paths one of the paths will begin a process that will

01:12lead us to peace the other will lead to more destruction and loss of life

01:17i would like to draw your attention to a point this meeting is the first direct contact between

01:25the parties since march 2022 we must seize this opportunity to advance on the path to peace

01:32every day we are late causes more lives to be lost

01:39and earlier on friday an initial round of meetings arising from the ukrainian

01:44disagreement took place in istanbul the gathering between delegations of turkey ukraine and the

01:50united states was hosted by the turkish foreign minister hakan fidan and included on the u.s side

01:56secretary of state marco rubio special envoy for ukraine keith kellogg and u.s ambassador to

02:02turkey you thomas barack representing ukraine were foreign minister andrey shiva defense minister

02:09rustom umerov and head of the presidential office andrey yemak the three-way talks opened after on

02:17thursday ukrainian president volodymyr selensky refused to attend the scheduled meetings with the russian

02:23delegation

02:31and meanwhile the european union has announced that it will impose the 17th package of sanctions against russia

02:38next tuesday with immediate effect german chancellor friedrich merz announced that the package was ready

02:45and to be adopted in brussels on tuesday for her part european commission president ursula von der leyen

02:51said that the eu is further limiting russia's access to combat technology adding that the restrictions would

02:58impact 189 ships in russia's fleet it's important to note that since the beginning of the russian special

03:06military operation in ukraine on february 24 2022 the eu has approved 16 sanctions packages with no clearly

03:15visible effects

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