The Russian president had been challenged by Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky to meet in person at the talks on Thursday.

Ukraine faces a difficult balancing act — sanction more Chinese firms for aiding Russia’s war machine without alienating ...

Turkish officials told Bloomberg that while they don't expect Trump to visit Istanbul, they are not ruling it out, and ...

Vladimir Putin will not attend Thursday’s Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Istanbul, despite calls from Zelensky, Trump and ...

Ukrainian leader Mr Zelensky told reporters in Kyiv that he will be in Ankara on Thursday to conduct negotiations. | ITV ...

Ukraine's President Zelensky has been brutally snubbed by Vladimir Putin after rumours swirled over face-to-face talks ...

Zelensky said he would attend the peace talks but only if Putin were present. Putin first proposed direct negotiations in ...

A lower level team will attend the first direct Russia-Ukraine contacts on their conflict in more than three years. Read more ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy declared the UK and its allies were “united alongside Ukraine ” as he travelled to a NATO ...

The US wants the two sides to sign up to a 30-day ceasefire in what is Europe’s biggest land war since World War Two.

Neither Russian President Vladimir Putin nor US President Donald Trump will attend talks in Istanbul with Ukrainian President ...