India, May 16 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday he is sending a team headed by his defence minister to Istanbul for the first direct peace talks with a Russian delegation since the early weeks of Moscow's full-scale invasion in 2022. Zelensky made the move after Russian President Vladimir Putin stayed away from a face-to-face meeting with him that the Ukrainian leader had proposed.P17
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