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ISTANBUL -- Delegations from Russia and Ukraine gathered successful Turkey connected Monday for their second circular of nonstop bid talks successful conscionable implicit 2 weeks, though expectations were debased for immoderate important advancement connected ending the three-year war.
The Ukrainian delegation led Defense Minister Rustem Umerov was successful Istanbul for the meeting, according to Heorhii Tykhyi, spokesperson for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, said successful a connection posted connected the Ukrainian Embassy Whatsapp group. The Russian delegation headed by Vladimir Medinsky, an adjutant to Russian person Vladimir Putin, arrived Sunday evening, Russian authorities media reported.
Turkish officials said the gathering would commencement astatine 1 p.m. section time, with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan presiding implicit the talks and officials from the Turkish quality bureau besides present.
However, Ukrainian spokesperson Tykhyi said the commencement would beryllium astatine midday section time. It was not instantly imaginable to clarify the discrepancy.
Recent comments by elder officials successful some countries bespeak they remain acold apart connected the cardinal conditions for stopping the war. Fierce warring has successful the meantime continued on the astir 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) beforehand line, and some sides person deed each other’s territory with heavy strikes.
On Sunday, a Ukrainian drone onslaught destroyed much than 40 Russian planes heavy wrong Russia, Ukraine’s Security Service said, portion Moscow pounded Ukraine with missiles and drones.
Russian aerial defenses downed 162 Ukrainian drones implicit 8 Russian regions overnight, arsenic good arsenic implicit the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Monday.
Ukrainian aerial defenses damaged 52 retired of 80 drones launched by Russia overnight, the Ukrainian aerial unit said.
Two ballistic missiles struck a residential vicinity successful the northeastern Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv connected Monday morning, including 1 that deed adjacent a school, the city’s politician said.
One rocket landed adjacent an flat building, portion the 2nd struck a roadworthy adjacent the school, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said successful a connection and published a photograph of a wide crater.
“Standing adjacent to the crater, you recognize however antithetic it each could person been,” Terekhov wrote. “A fewer much meters — and it would person deed the building. A fewer much minutes — and cars, buses would person been connected the road.”
No casualties were reported.
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Suzan Frazer successful Ankara, Turkey, and Hanna Arhirova successful Kyiv, Ukraine, contributed to this report.
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