00:00To start off, peace talks between Russia and Ukraine took place this morning in Istanbul, Turkey.
00:06The nearly two-hour meeting marked the first time in three years that delegations from both countries were in the same room.
00:13The two nations are not known to have held direct talks at any level since the early weeks following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
00:22Kiev is pushing for an unconditional ceasefire to end the conflict that has devastated Ukraine, while Moscow aims to address the conflict's root causes and revive failed 2022 talks.
00:35Notably absent from the talks were Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
00:41Another missing key figure was U.S. President Donald Trump, who suggested that significant progress in peace talks were unlikely until he and Putin meet in person.
00:52U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also arrived in Istanbul earlier for a trilateral meeting with Ukrainian and Turkish officials.
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