Ankara, May 15 (AP) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday he will send a team headed by Defence Minister Rustem Umerov to the Turkish city of Istanbul for peace talks with a Russian delegation.

Zelenskyy told a news conference in the Turkish capital Ankara that the Russian delegation doesn't include “anyone who actually makes decisions.”

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But he said that to demonstrate to US President Donald Trump that Ukraine is seeking an end to the 3-year-old war that he had decided to send officials from Ankara to Istanbul for the meeting.

Their aim is “to attempt at least the first steps toward de-escalation, the first steps toward ending the war — namely, a ceasefire.” (AP)

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