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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he is sending a team to meet with Russian officials in Istanbul, after Russian leader Vladimir Putin declined to attend a presidential sit-down.
Zelenskyy said he does not believe Russia is serious about the peace talks, although the head of the Russian delegation argued Moscow was willing to discuss “possible compromises.”
US President Donald Trump has expressed frustration with Russia’s refusal to engage with peace talks.
Putin’s absence could be a major miscalculation, the former Australian General Mick Ryan wrote: Trump may see it as “a deliberate insult,” and the decision not to attend makes Putin look “smaller and more cowardly.”
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