India, June 2 -- Delegations from Russia and Ukraine met at Ciragan Palace in Turkey on Monday for their second round of direct peace talks in just over two weeks, in an attempt to put an end to the three-year long war and a day after Kyiv launched a massive drone attack, targetting Moscow's airbases.

The latest round of direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine went on for over an hour.

Defense minister Rustem Umerov led the Ukranian delegation as said in a message posted on the Ukrainian Embassy WhatsApp group by Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhvi.

Ukraine's Umerov said after the meeting that a new Prisoners of War (PoW) exchange was agreed, to focus on severely injured, and young people.

Turkish foreign mini...