The two sides are expected to exchange plans on how they want to end the three-year Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe’s largest conflict since World War. “The Ukrainian delegation came to Istanbul with a clear agenda and readiness to take big steps toward peace,” the source said. It added in written comments to AFP that […]
“Another 307 members of the Russian military were returned from territory controlled by the Kyiv regime. In exchange, 307 Ukrainian prisoners of war were transferred over,” the ministry said in a statement. It said the Russian POWs would receive psychological and medical help in Belarus before travelling to Russia. Both sides received 390 people in […]
Moscow has for weeks defied Western pressure for a full, unconditional and immediate truce in Ukraine, where its more than three-year offensive has killed tens of thousands of people. Despite direct talks in Istanbul with Ukrainian officials and a call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump earlier this week, the […]
The meeting of Russian and Ukrainian officials in Turkey on Friday failed to broker a temporary ceasefire. It was the first direct dialogue between the two sides since the early months of the war that Russia launched in February 2022. Commenting on the drone strike in the Sumy region, Zelenskiy said on X: “All the […]
“According to preliminary data… an unusual situation arose on board. The pilot moved the aircraft away from the settlement and successfully ejected,” it said on the Telegram messenger. The air force said the pilot was feeling fine. It indicated that the crash did not appear to be the result of Russian fire, and a commission […]
“I’m still cautiously optimistic that if also the Russians are willing to play ball, and not only the Ukrainians are doing this… that you could get to some breakthroughs over the next couple of weeks,” Rutte said at a NATO meeting in Turkey. Rutte was speaking ahead of potential peace talks between Ukraine and Russia […]
A U.N. aviation council found this week that Russia was responsible for the downing of MH17, which was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014 during fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces. Moscow has rejected the International Civil Aviation Organization Council’s (ICAO) findings on the crash that killed all 298 passengers and crew, calling […]
Vladimir Putin on Sunday proposed direct negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul on Thursday “without any preconditions”. Late on Wednesday, the Kremlin said the delegation would include presidential adviser Vladimir Medinsky and Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin – but Putin’s name was not on the list. After the Kremlin’s delegation announcement, a US official said Trump, […]
“We support the proposal for a full and unconditional 30-day ceasefire. It must be implemented without pre-conditions to pave the way for meaningful peace negotiations,” she said on X, formerly Twitter. Von der Leyen posted her message as the leaders of France, Germany, Britain, and Poland were visiting Kyiv to show solidarity for Ukraine and […]
It was not clear whether either side was observing the ceasefire, even with world leaders — including China’s Xi Jinping, Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic — in Moscow for commemorations of the end of World War II. It appeared relatively quiet overnight, though Ukraine’s military said early Thursday that Russian […]
