Volodymyr Zelenskyy challenged Putin to meet him in person in Istanbul, but the Russian president will skip the talks

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is due to meet Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday and after that will make a decision on talks with Russia in Istanbul, a Ukrainian official has told Reuters.

The Ukrainian president had previously proposed a face-to-face meeting in Turkey between himself and his Russian counterpart.