Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed talks with Ukraine in Turkey next week without any preconditions.

The build-up to this announcement was extremely strange. The proposal for direct talks with Ukraine felt like it had been hastily cobbled together.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes direct peace talks with Ukraine to "eliminate the root causes of the conflict" ...

In a rare, late-night television address from the Kremlin on Saturday, Putin told Russians, “We seek serious talks... to ...

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