Russia and Ukraine concluded their first direct peace talks since 2022 in Istanbul, ending in under two hours. A major breakthrough remained elusive, with both nations agreeing only on a large prisoner swap of 1,000 POWs each. Ukraine, backed by Western allies, demanded a ceasefire, but Russia rejected the proposal and introduced new demands. Leaders from the U.S. and Europe called for tougher sanctions. Meanwhile, fighting intensifies on Ukrainian soil, with casualties mounting and fresh offensives anticipated. Hopes for a ceasefire dimmed as diplomacy stalled.
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00:00Ukraine's foreign ministry spokespers and I will just brief you what will be now we have with us
00:22the head of the Ukrainian intelligence directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine was also
00:28part of the delegation to 3,000 people and we reach to a conclusion reach to an agreement
00:36discussions in here and I think the next step would be again would like to reiterate Ukraine
00:46Ukraine is focused today we need to finalize this war our first priority was people and that's why
00:56we negotiated to free thousand people and we reach to a conclusion reach to an agreement to exchange
01:05thousand people it is important achievement and that once again shows that we are focused to
01:14finalize this war the second objective was to discuss ceasefire we exchanged on modalities
01:22uh and our teams will be working on exchanging uh the details to reiterate Ukraine wants peace
01:32Ukraine is focused to people and we're able and capable uh to continue fight but at the end of the
01:41day we need to finalize this war so thank you the tentative success of today's negotiations
01:50is still to be consolidated that means that the pressure on the russian federation must continue
01:57we should not really relax at this point and there are many issues that can be resolved if only the leaders
02:04could meet
02:12so