Journalists gathered at the gates of the Chiragan Palace in anticipation of negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine

Journalists gathered at the gates of the Chiragan Palace in Istanbul, where a new round of negotiations between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine is expected.

It is noted that now they pass through the metal detector frame, the contents of the bags are seen through introscopes. Besides, people were separated. This was done so that there would be no queue at the checkpoint.

Earlier, Vladimir Medinsky, assistant to the President of the Russian Federation and head of the delegation at the meeting on resolving the crisis in Ukraine, arrived at an Istanbul hotel before the talks scheduled for June 2.

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced on June 1 that the Ukrainian delegation to the talks in Istanbul would be headed by Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. On the same day, it became known that the delegation would be expanded from 12 to 14 people.