Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,174

Here is wherever things basal connected Tuesday, May 13:

Ceasefire

• Moscow has yet to accidental whether Russian person Vladimir Putin volition be nonstop talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy slated for Thursday successful Istanbul and projected by Kyiv implicit the weekend. The leaders person not met since December 2019.
• United States President Donald Trump said helium is “thinking astir flying over” to Istanbul to articulation the imaginable Putin-Zelenskyy talks.
• “I don’t cognize wherever I’m going to beryllium connected Thursday – I’ve got truthful galore meetings – but I was reasoning astir really flying implicit there. There’s a anticipation of it, I guess, if I deliberation things tin happen,” Trump said. “Don’t underestimate Thursday successful Turkey.”

• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said helium held a associated telephone with Ukrainian and European officials to sermon a “way guardant for a ceasefire” connected Monday.
• Europe volition reportedly propulsion the White House for caller sanctions connected Moscow if Putin either fails to be the Istanbul meeting, oregon fails to hold to an “immediate and unconditional ceasefire”, Bloomberg reported, citing radical acquainted with the matter.
• Germany said it is besides preparing sanctions against Moscow if the talks stall.

Fighting

• Ukraine says that Russia is “completely ignoring” calls for a 30-day ceasefire made implicit the play by the US and Europe. It was owed to statesman connected Monday.
• “Russian shelling and assaults continue,” Zelenskyy said successful a nightly address. “Moscow has remained soundless each time regarding the connection for a nonstop meeting. A precise unusual silence.”
• Ukraine’s subject said that determination had been 133 clashes with Russian forces on the beforehand lines up to Monday night.
• The heaviest warring continues successful the Donetsk portion connected Ukraine’s eastbound beforehand and Russia’s occidental Kursk region. Ukraine’s subject said the strength remains unchanged since the ceasefire was expected to begin.
• Moscow called the 30-day ceasefire an excuse by Europe to “provide a breather for Kyiv to reconstruct its subject imaginable and proceed its confrontation with Russia”.

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