New Delhi, May 15 -- ussian President Vladimir Putin will not be attending the Russia-Ukraine peace talks scheduled for Thursday in Istanbul, despite calls from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and diplomatic nudges from global leaders, including Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Late Wednesday, the Kremlin published a list of eight delegates-four negotiators and four experts-who will represent Moscow in the talks. Putin, who had proposed the Istanbul meeting "without any preconditions" on Sunday, did not include himself among the participants.

The Russian delegation, announced via a decree on the Kremlin website, includes:

All three previously participated in the short-lived negotiations held in 2022, following Russi...