Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed Monday’s second round of direct peace talks between Ukraine and Russia as “very, very momentous”.
He confirmed that both sides had agreed to exchange over a thousand prisoners of war along with a “highly significant number” of bodies of soldiers killed in action.
Officials said the discussion lasted only slightly more than an hour and produced no major progress toward ending the 3-year-old war,
However, Erdogan said his greatest wish now was to bring the Russian and Ukrainian leaders together for a meeting that could also include US President Donald Trump.
The talks unfolded a day after a string of stunning long-range attacks by both sides, with Ukraine launching a devastating drone assault on Russian air bases and Russia hurling its largest drone attack of the war against Ukraine.
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