The Telegraph spoke about Kiev's concerns about the meeting between Trump and Putin.

Kiev fears a meeting between American President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin. This was reported by The Telegraph newspaper on Friday, May 16.

"Instead of demonstrating his desire to join Europe and impose much tougher sanctions against Moscow, the US president decided to reward his Russian counterpart with a personal meeting, which he had been wanting for so long," the article says.

The author of the article believes that personal talks with Trump, where Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky would not be invited, would consolidate Russia's status. A meeting between the presidents of Russia and the United States would also be a humiliation for European leaders, who expected Trump to respond to Putin's rejection of the 30-day truce with stricter sanctions against Russia.

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On May 16, the Russian and Ukrainian delegations at the talks agreed to present their vision of a cease-fire and to exchange prisoners of war in the "1000 by 1000" format.

On the same day, he had a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump after talks between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Istanbul. It was attended by the Presidents of Ukraine and France, Vladimir Zelensky, Emmanuel Macron, the Prime Ministers of Poland and the United Kingdom, Donald Tusk and Keir Starmer, as well as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.