What Can Ukraine Expect From Istanbul Talks?

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00:00You've consistently called out Russian aggression.

00:03What does Kyiv realistically hope to achieve from these new talks in Istanbul, especially

00:08after weeks of silence from Russia and what seems like stalled progress towards some sort

00:13of a peace deal?

00:14You know, I'm quite skeptical about possible results of these peace talks.

00:19The best we can really wait for is exchange of prisoners of war, which is very important

00:25because for Ukraine, we want to take all our heroes back home.

00:31But I don't believe that there will be any breakthrough.

00:34Unfortunately, Putin wants to continue the war.

00:37And for the moment, he doesn't want to stop.

00:39And the only way how he can be made to stop is if he will be punched hard, first of all,

00:45by United States.

00:46We heard President Trump recently who said that he gave Russia 50 days.

00:51And I hope that he will continue this line of really strong and harsh tone with Russia.

00:57That can really help.

00:59But again, I don't believe something will happen now.

01:01Probably we need to wait these 50 days and then United States will need to put a really

01:05serious sanctions, including secondary sanctions against countries buying Russian oil.

01:10And only after this, I think we can have a real possibility to have Russia at the negotiation

01:16table with not imitating, but having real negotiations.

01:21So he can be left.

01:28Let's do it.

01:29And he hasn't left.

01:33I think he can be left.

01:41But we could just make a little bit of a change.