Kremlin says a Putin-Trump meeting on Ukraine is essential but needs advance preparation and must yield results

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Russian and Ukrainian negotiators were meeting in Istanbul on Friday in their first direct peace talks in more than three years, under pressure from Trump to end Europe's deadliest conflict since World War Two. Wrapping up his Gulf tour earlier on Friday, Trump said he would meet Putin "as soon as we can set it up", a day after saying that "nothing's going to happen until Putin
47% : Asked about a Bloomberg report that Washington was proposing to revive the NATO-Russia Council, a forum for military and political dialogue whose work was suspended after Putin sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in 2022, Peskov said there had been no substantive proposals on the subject.
36% : Asked about Rubio's comments, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday: "There is no doubt that contacts between President Putin and Trump are important in the context of the Ukrainian negotiations.
35% : U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also said on Thursday that the only way a breakthrough in the efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine would happen would be through direct talks between Trump and Putin.
21% : " Putin and Trump have spoken by phone, but not met since Trump returned to the White House in January, despite both leaders expressing their desire for face-to-face talks.

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