A still-unfolding diplomatic road seeking peace in Ukraine has had many twists and turns

It was a play of diplomatic announcements connected the warfare successful Ukraine.

First, European leaders assembled successful Kyiv connected Saturday with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to enactment unit connected Russian President Vladimir Putin for a ceasefire. Then, aft midnight, the Kremlin person surfaced successful Moscow to unveil a connection for talks successful Istanbul, Turkey.

If some Putin and Zelenskyy beryllium down with each other, it would beryllium a first successful the 3-year-old war.

Key events that person shaped efforts to extremity the warfare since Russia invaded Ukraine connected Feb. 24, 2022:

Feb. 28, 2022: Ukrainian and Russian delegations conscionable successful neighboring Belarus for the archetypal time aft the invasion. Talks proceed implicit the adjacent 2 weeks, but nary evident agreements look different than a determination to acceptable up humanitarian corridors for civilians.

March 21, 2022: Zelenskyy calls for nonstop talks with Putin but is rebuffed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. A time later, Zelenskyy says helium is prepared to discuss a commitment for Ukraine to not to question NATO rank successful speech for a ceasefire, the withdrawal of Russian troops and a warrant of Ukraine’s security.

March 29, 2022: Talks statesman successful Istanbul, Turkey, with Moscow saying it's consenting to “fundamentally chopped back” subject activity adjacent Kyiv and the bluish metropolis of Chernihiv, portion Ukraine said it was unfastened to discussing neutral presumption for Ukraine if its information is backed by different nations.

April 7, 2022: Lavrov rejects a Ukrainian bid connection arsenic “unacceptable. ” He says Kyiv has walked backmost connected an statement to exempt the Crimean Peninsula from wider Ukrainian information guarantees. Russia illegally annexed Crimea successful 2014.

April 26, 2022: U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres visits Russia to sermon ending the war.

May 13, 2022: U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin calls his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, successful their archetypal interaction since earlier the commencement of the war.

July 22, 2022: Russia and Ukraine, with mediation by Turkey and the U.N., hold on a deal to unblock supplies of atom stuck successful Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, ending a standoff that threatened planetary nutrient security. The woody expires a twelvemonth later.

Sept. 22, 2022: Zelenskyy addresses the U.N. General Assembly, laying retired 5 “nonnegotiable” conditions, including a “just punishment” for Russia.

Sept. 30, 2022: Russia illegally annexes the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, adjacent though it doesn't afloat power immoderate of them. Ukraine responds by applying to articulation NATO and by enacting a decree that declares negotiations with Putin “impossible”.

Nov. 15, 2022: Zelenskyy unveils a 10-point bid program astatine the G20 acme successful Bali.

June 25, 2023: Officials from 15 countries, including the U.S., the European Union, India, Brazil, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey conscionable successful Copenhagen, Denmark, to sermon Zelenskyy’s bid plan.

Aug. 5, 2023: Two days of discussions connected the warfare statesman successful Saudi Arabia with delegates from 40 countries, but not Russia. No associated statements are issued.

Oct. 28, 2023: Delegates from 65 countries conscionable successful Malta to proceed talks connected Zelenskyy's bid plan. Russia, which has dismissed the talks, was not invited.

June 15, 2024: Representatives of 92 nations conscionable successful Nidwalden, Switzerland, to sermon Ukraine’s bid plan. Despite the increasing fig of delegates, a statement remains elusive. The summit’s last connection is backed by astir – though not each – participants.

Dec. 7, 2024: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump travels to Paris and meets Zelenskyy and different European leaders.

Feb 12. 2025: Trump and Putin talk straight via telephone and hold to statesman negotiations connected ending Ukraine warfare successful a telephone telephone that abruptly ended a three-year U.S.-led effort to isolate Putin implicit Ukraine.

Feb. 18, 2025: Russian and U.S. officials, including Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, conscionable successful Saudi Arabia and hold to enactment toward ending the war, arsenic good arsenic restoring bilateral ties. Ukrainian officials are not invited.

Feb. 28, 2025: Zelenskyy meets with Trump, Rubio and Vice President JD Vance successful the White House but tensions interruption retired successful the Oval Office and a projected minerals woody betwixt the countries is near unsigned.

March 11, 2025: U.S. and Ukrainian officials conscionable successful Saudi Arabia, with American officials putting guardant a program for a 30-day ceasefire. Kyiv agrees to the projected truce.

March 13, 2025: Putin efficaciously rejects the ceasefire plan, stating definite issues inactive indispensable beryllium resolved. He besides meets with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff successful Moscow. Witkoff would question to Russia 2 much times successful April to conscionable Putin.

March 18, 2025: A connection is enactment guardant for a impermanent halt connected strikes connected vigor infrastructure. Both sides hold to the plan, but soon impeach each different of violations, and the measurement aboriginal expires.

April 19, 2025: Putin announces a 30-hour ceasefire to people the Easter holiday, though attacks continue crossed Ukraine.

April 28, 2025: The Kremlin declares a unilateral 72-hour ceasefire starting May 8 to people Russia's Victory Day celebrating the decision of Nazi Germany successful World War II. Kyiv does not agree, preferring a 30-day truce projected by U.S. officials. Both sides impeach each different of violating it.

May 10, 2025: French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk conscionable with Zelenskyy successful Kyiv and impulse Russia to enact a 30-day truce starting May 12.

May 11, 2025: Putin proposes restarting nonstop talks with Ukraine successful Istanbul connected May 15, “without preconditions,” but does not hold to the 30-day ceasefire Zelenskyy challenges Putin to meet personally successful Turkey.

May 12, 2025: Trump says helium is “thinking astir flying over” to Turkey for the talks aft his sojourn to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates but aboriginal says Rubio and different U.S. officials volition go.

May 13, 2025: Ukrainian statesmanlike advisor Mykhailo Podolyak says Zelenskyy won't conscionable with immoderate typical of Russia successful Turkey but for Putin. Zelenskyy says helium and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan volition hold for Putin successful Ankara, adding: “If Putin does not get and plays games, it is the last constituent that helium does not privation to extremity the war.”

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