Earlier, Russia announced that it had drafted a "peace memorandum" outlining its terms for ending the war, but would present it to Ukraine at a second round of direct talks in Istanbul on 2 June.

Ukraine and Russia are close to reviving direct peace talks for the first time since the last face-to-face discussions ended three years ago.

TALKS AIMED AT getting Ukraine and Russia closer to a ceasefire agreement are due to take place in Turkey tomorrow. However, it’s still not clear just exactly who will be attending.

Diplomacy has often been the last bridge standing during wars. Even when battles continue, leaders sometimes turn to talks to ...

UKRAINE HAS SAID it is ready to hold more talks with Russia in Istanbul next week, but repeated a call for Moscow to supply a document setting out its conditions for peace.

Delegations from Russia and Ukraine have ended their latest peace talks in Turkey after just over an hour, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian state media said. Speaking in Vilnius ...

Kyiv confirms receiving bodies of 1,000 Ukrainian servicemen, Russian presidential aide says Moscow received bodies of 19 ...

While President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky work to set up a bilateral Russia-Ukraine summit, Moscow is ...

The two sides last held face-to-face talks — also in Istanbul — in March 2022, only weeks after Putin sent his army into Ukraine.

By categorically rejecting U.S.-backed Western security guarantees for Ukraine, the Kremlin is exposing its true ...

Instead, Russia dismissed a 22-point US peace plan and held fast to its demands, prompting Mr Trump to suggest the US would take a back seat in the peace process after the first round of talks in May.

Previous peace talks in Istanbul, which had also been led by Mr Medinsky and Mr Umerov, broke down in the spring of 2022 after Kyiv uncovered the atrocities carried out by Moscow’s forces in ...