According to a Russian newspaper Kommersant Russian and American delegations meet in Ankara. On behalf of the Russian side, the head of civilian intelligence Sergei Naryshkin, who is already in the Turkish capital, is participating in the unannounced talks.
The newspaper refers to an anonymous source who declined to provide further information.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he could neither confirm nor deny information about today’s meeting between the Russian and American delegations.
Kommersant did not specify whether the meeting was about the war in Ukraine. He referred to his previous text on the January meeting between the United States and Russia in Geneva on security guarantees. According to the newspaper, the insufficient results of these negotiations are often considered a diplomatic prerequisite for the outbreak of conflict in Ukraine.
According to the first information according to the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal, in recent months the security adviser to the US president, Jake Sullivan, would have met with senior advisers to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
The goal was to reduce the risk of further escalation of the war in Ukraine. On behalf of Russia, Putin’s foreign adviser Yuri Ushakov and Russian Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev took part in the talks, the newspaper reported.
