Ukraine's Zelenskyy says he will be waiting for Russian leader Putin in Ankara on Thursday for talks

KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that helium volition beryllium waiting for Russian President Vladimir Putin successful the Turkish superior this week to behaviour face-to-face talks astir the much than three-year war. Putin hasn't yet said whether helium volition beryllium astatine the talks, which US President Donald Trump has urged the 2 sides to be arsenic portion of Washington's efforts to halt the fighting. Zelenskyy told reporters successful Kyiv helium volition beryllium successful Ankara connected Thursday to behaviour the negotiations. He plans to conscionable with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the 2 volition hold for Putin to arrive, helium said. Zelenskyy said if Putin chooses Istanbul to clasp the meeting, past some leaders volition question there.Russia launched 10 Shahed and decoy drones astatine Ukraine successful nighttime attacks, the Ukrainian aerial unit said Tuesday, successful its smallest drone bombardment this twelvemonth arsenic the warring countries hole for imaginable bid talks successful Turkey. The Kremlin hasn't straight responded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's situation for Russian person Vladimir Putin to conscionable him successful idiosyncratic astatine the negotiating array successful Istanbul connected Thursday.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov refused for the 2nd consecutive time Tuesday to archer reporters whether Putin volition question to Istanbul and who other volition correspond Russia astatine the imaginable talks. "As soon arsenic the president considers it necessary, we volition marque an announcement," Peskov said. Russia has said it volition nonstop a delegation to Istanbul without preconditions. The US has been applying stiff unit connected some sides to travel to the array since President Donald Trump came to powerfulness successful January with a committedness to extremity the war. Military analysts accidental some sides are preparing a spring-summer run connected the battlefield, wherever a warfare of attrition has killed tens of thousands of soldiers connected some sides on the astir 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) beforehand line. The Institute for the Study of ...