Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky intends to meet only with Russian President Vladimir Putin when he travels to Turkey this week for potential peace talks, not with lower-level Russian officials, a top Ukrainian official said Tuesday.

Zelensky accepted Putin’s surprise proposal for direct negotiations in Istanbul on Thursday, challenging the R

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Authorities in the Siberian republic of Buryatia on Tuesdaydeclared a regionwide state of emergency as firefighters continued to battle rapidly spreading wildfires blamed on human activity.

Buryatia, which borders Mongolia, is the second-hardest hit region in Russia during this year’s wildfire season, with some 53,000 hectares (131,000 acres) c

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The U.N. aviation council on Monday ruled that Russia was responsible for the downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine that killed all 298 guests and team, consisting of 196 Dutch people and 38 Australian residents or residents, the Dutch and Australian federal governments said in separate statements.Both federal governments stated the Council of the
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday raised the prospect of joining direct talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials in Istanbul later this week.

Trump, who will be visiting the Middle East this week, told reporters at the White House that "you may have a good result out of the Thursday meeting in Turkey between Russia and Ukraine."

"I was

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The prospect of direct talks between Russia and Ukraine to end the war is once again on the table after weeks of diplomatic back-and-forth.

President Vladimir Putin has proposed resuming negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul on Thursday, three years after the two sides held failed talks there in the early weeks of the invasion.

The proposal came in

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A senior member of Russia’s lower house of parliament on Monday called U.S. President Donald Trump “weak” for downplaying the Soviet Union’s role in World War II.

Trump claimed over the weekend that Allied powers were “not even close” to defeating Nazi Germany before the United States intervened in the conflict. He made those comments in a Truth Soc

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