Source: SFGate
“Russia and Ukraine have no direct peace talks scheduled, the Kremlin said Thursday, nearly a week after their first face-to-face session since shortly after Moscow’s invasion in 2022 and days after U.S. President Donald Trump said they would start ceasefire negotiations ‘immediately.’ ‘There is no concrete agreement about the next meetings,’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. ‘They are yet to be agreed upon.’ During two hours of talks in Istanbul on May 16, Kyiv and Moscow agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war each, in what would be their biggest such swap. Apart from that step, the meeting delivered no significant breakthrough. Several months of intensified U.S. and European pressure on the two sides to accept a ceasefire and negotiate a settlement have yielded little progress. Meanwhile, Russia is readying a summer offensive to capture more Ukrainian land, Ukrainian government and military analysts say.” (05/22/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/no-new-direct-russia-ukraine-peace-talks-20340501.php