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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Credit: AP Photo
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is welcoming efforts to open talks with Russia.
In a video message Saturday, Zelenskyy said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev offered to help organise talks and that “we can only welcome that.”
Diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed have so far faltered.
Zelenskyy offered Friday to negotiate a key Russian demand: that Ukraine declares itself neutral and abandon its ambition of joining NATO. But the movement to actually advance any diplomacy has appeared to sputter.
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