Russia to Attend New Talks as Ukraine Demands Peace Outline

Russia said it’s sending a delegation to Istanbul on Monday for a second round of talks with Ukraine amid wrangling over Kyiv’s insistence that Moscow outline its peace proposals before any meeting.

The warring sides have tussled over the parameters of negotiations after Turkey hosted the first direct talks between Russia and Ukraine since the early months of the war on May 16. Moscow didn’t accept a US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire and used the meeting to repeat its maximalist demands to end its invasion, now in its fourth year.