President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Defense Minister Rustem Umerov would sit down with Russian officials at the second round of peace talks on Monday.

It was already hard to imagine a breakthrough emerging from the direct talks between Russia and Ukraine set to be renewed in Istanbul on Monday.

On the eve of bilateral peace talks in Istanbul, Ukraine’s security services launched a massive drone attack against five air bases inside Russia, reaching Siberia for the first time, officials in both countries said Sunday,