Zelensky arrives in Albania for European Political Neighborhood summit

President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Albania on Could 16 to attend a summit of the European Political Neighborhood, presidential spokesperson Serhii Nykyforov mentioned, based on the state information channel Freedom TV.

The sixth assembly of the European Political Neighborhood will give attention to Europe's safety, together with Russia's ongoing full-scale battle towards Ukraine, amongst different matters.

The summit comes as Ukrainian and Russian delegations are anticipated to carry talks in Istanbul for the primary time since 2022. Turkish and U.S. officers can even reportedly be part of the sequence of discussions.

Zelensky's go to follows his journey to Turkey, the place he met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Though a face-to-face assembly between Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin was anticipated in Istanbul, Putin as an alternative despatched a delegation led by his aide, Vladimir Medinsky.

Kyiv and its companions have urged Moscow to undertake an unconditional 30-day ceasefire as step one towards a broader peace deal, a transfer that Russia continues to reject.

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