INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
meet Russia for direct truce talks.Zelensky said so after Russia's Vladimir Putin called on Kyiv to meet in Istanbul for talks on May 15 at
into Ukraine, communication channels between the two sides have only been open for exchanges of prisoners of war and the bodies of the
fallen.Hours earlier, at a press conference held at almost 1 am (2200 GMT) in the Kremlin, Putin had responded to the Europeans'
fighting.Kyiv on Sunday also accused Moscow of launching more than 100 drones on Ukraine, after a Russian-announced 72-hour ceasefire had
ended at midnight on Saturday.Kyiv had not reported any drone attacks since Thursday, when the ceasefire came into effect, although it did
adding that it had downed 60 of them.
