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Putin spurns Zelenskyy meeting but lower-level Ukraine-Russia talks are still on
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t show up Thursday for proposed direct peace talks in Turkey with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was waiting for Putin in the capital Ankara after challenging him to face-to-face discussions on ending their countries’ more than three-year war.
Amid disarray, Trump says only a Putin sit-down can save Ukraine peace talks
ISTANBUL − Russia's Vladimir Putin spurned a challenge to meet face-to-face with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Turkey, instead sending a second-tier delegation to planned peace talks, while Ukraine's president said his defence minister would head up Kyiv's team.
Later on Sunday, Trump wrote via Truth Social that Putin wants to meet in Turkey with Ukraine on Thursday to negotiate "a ...
The talks in Istanbul complicated a European push for the United States to pressure Russia into a ceasefire in Ukraine.
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