Diplomat Roman Bezsmertnyi stated this on Espreso TV."Let me immediately dismiss the idea that these are peace talks with Russia, or anything involving a Moscow-Kyiv-Washington triangle. That is not what this is about. In my conviction, this meeting, like the previous one you mentioned involving the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, was a meeting to gauge the extent to which Ankara and Tayyip Recep Erdoğan can take on the future negotiation process. Notice how in Washington, this issue has been passed into the hands of a trio: Rubio, Miller, and Vance. And for the last two weeks, Fidan, the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been constantly saying that negotiations are intensifying, that they will happen, that the issue is being resolved, and so on. In fact, the conversation with Tayyip Recep Erdoğan included Fidan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs; the head of Turkey's joint intelligence; and Erdoğan's foreign policy advisor," he said.Roman Bezsmertnyi believes this is a working meeting to determine whether a negotiation process can be started at this time and what its focus might be."My conviction is that this is a working meeting to see if the process can be started now and what it could be about. Currently, there is only one productive track, and that is the exchange of prisoners of war. The rest is a dead end. Everything circulating in the information space revolves around the theme of Erdoğan's role as an organizer and mediator of these negotiations. Everything else is a good mental exercise, but it is far from being the substance of the current meeting in Ankara. And as I understand it, this evening there will likely be a press conference or some kind of briefing, and then we will know, perhaps, some details about the role Tayyip Recep Erdoğan might play in the current processes. But to say that something will start now—especially since people have started talking about substance and so on—is all very far from the reality of the meeting currently taking place in Ankara," he added.On November 19, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Turkey for meetings aimed at intensifying negotiations and resuming exchanges of prisoners of war.On November 12, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced its supposed readiness to resume negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul.On November 19, it was reported that Turkey considers it appropriate for the Istanbul process to "resume with a broader context and be aimed at resolving issues that have now become critical."