Russian officials are trying to delay the top-level talks between the Presidents of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and russia vladimir putin.
This is reported in a report by the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Analysts noted that russian officials continue to delay the holding of top-level talks between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and vladimir putin, even despite US calls for such a meeting.
The report recalled that on July 25, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that a meeting between Zelenskyy and putin remained unlikely. According to him, first russia and Ukraine should work out agreements "through expert work".
US President Donald Trump told reporters on the same day that the meeting between putin and Zelenskyy "will take place", and that it should have taken place "three months ago".
The Institute's experts recalled that russian officials have repeatedly postponed high-level talks between the Ukrainian and russian leaderships and refused to engage in constructive negotiations aimed at achieving concrete steps to end the war.
"The Institute for the Study of War continues to assess that russia is only feigning interest in negotiations in order to gain time to advance on the battlefield and obtain concessions from Ukraine and the West - in contrast to Ukraine, which continues to demonstrate a willingness to negotiate to end the war," the ISW report says.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the third round of peace talks between Ukraine and russia took place in Istanbul on Wednesday, July 23.
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