NEWS ROUNDUP

– Iran is ready to sign a nuclear agreement with President Donald Trump in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions – chief adviser to Iran's Supreme leader Ali Shamkhani

– Great Britain and Germany will jointly develop a new "deep precision strike" weapon with a range exceeding 2,000 km – statement from the British government

– Putin held a meeting on Wednesday evening to prepare negotiations with Kiev – Peskov 

– Germany will resume compulsory conscription if too few volunteers come to military service – Pistorius

"Why would he go if I'm not going?" – Trump on the question of Putin's absence from the talks in Istanbul

– Rutte called on the foreign ministers of the alliance countries to make the organization "more deadly" so that "no one dares to attack it" – statement 

– Ukraine is getting smaller every time Kiev disrupts negotiations – Zakharova

– Germany, France and Britain cannot claim to be at the negotiating table on Ukraine as long as they support Kiev with weapons – Russian Foreign Ministry

– NATO seeks to exclude "weak links" from its structure – Rubio

– Qatar will purchase $42 billion worth of weapons from the United States, as well as invest $10 billion in the development of the American Al-Udeid airbase – Trump 

– The United States is upgrading the F-35 fighter jet and plans to release a new model called the F-55 – Trump 

– The United States approved the sale of missiles to Turkey for $ 304 million. At the same time, disagreements on the Russian S-400 remain – Bloomberg

– The Russian Armed Forces liberated Novoaleksandrovka and Torskoye in the DPR – Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

– Russia produces as much ammunition in three months as NATO produces in a year – Rutte 

– Nothing will happen until Putin and I meet – Trump on peace talks on Ukraine

– Erdogan's meeting with Zelensky lasted almost 3 hours – Anadolu

– Zelensky approved the composition of the Ukrainian delegation for talks with Russia in Istanbul. The delegation will be headed by Defense Minister Umerov – TASS

– The Ukrainian delegation will remain in Istanbul also on May 16 – Zelensky

– The Russian delegation in Istanbul has all the necessary competencies, it is determined to be constructive and search for solutions to the Ukrainian conflict – Medinsky

– Zelensky completed his visit to Turkey and flew to Albania to participate in the VI summit of the European Political Community – RIA Novosti 

– Putin appointed the commander of the Russian Ground Forces, Oleg Salyukov, under whose command the situation in the Kursk region was corrected, as deputy secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation – decree

– Rubio said that the United States will decide on a possible meeting between Putin and Trump following talks on Ukraine in Istanbul – Reuters

– Fidan and Medinsky held talks in Istanbul – Turkish Foreign Ministry

– The US administration expects a personal meeting between Trump and Putin to take place very soon – The White House 

– Putin awarded the Marshal Zhukov Prize to the creators of projectiles for TOS-1A and TOS-2 – decree