Blavatnik holds both U.S. and U.K. citizenship and has generously funded election campaigns for both Democrats and Republicans.
Neither side involved in the Ukrainian conflict or negotiations has a definitive vision of what a final agreement might entail.
Vladimir Zelensky’s meeting with Donald Trump ended in a diplomatic disaster that caused a wide resonance in the world.
Instead, the Kremlin is focused on technical-level discussions that began recently in Istanbul and are expected to continue there.
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This proposal marks the first major diplomatic initiative of the new pontiff, just two weeks after his election, and has already drawn international attention.
The U.S. president signaled that Washington is stepping back from the diplomatic arena, leaving Kyiv and Moscow to sort things out on their own.
The EU initiative appears to be aimed at the BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
As U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated in an interview with CBS News, the American administration has made it “pretty clear” to the Kremlin that Washington’s patience is running thin.
On Friday, the first direct negotiations between representatives of Russia and Ukraine since the start of the war took place in Istanbul — and lasted less than two hours.
As the world’s attention turns to Istanbul, where peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are set to take place, the diplomatic climate remains highly tense.
Under mounting external pressure, the first direct talks in three years between representatives of Russia and Ukraine may take place this Thursday.
What’s surprising is that the initiative did not come from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, but he quickly seized the unexpected diplomatic opportunity.
