“Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to travel to Turkey regardless of Vladimir Putin’s plans, raising the stakes in a western-led pressure campaign to get the Russian president to engage in peace talks,” the Financial Times reports.
“Zelensky plans to travel to Ankara on Thursday where he will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and await Putin’s arrival in Istanbul or anywhere else in Turkey.
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