The warring sides remain far apart after the third round of U.S.-brokered peace negotiations on Wednesday. But there was progress on humanitarian issues.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has expressed hope that peace talks between Ukraine and Russia will be arranged in the near future, leading to an end to the war. Source: Erdoğan after a Turkish government meeting,

Officials from Russia and Ukraine ended a third round of formal negotiations in Istanbul with an agreement to swap more prisoners but little sign of progress on a deal to halt the war.