Kyiv's Independence Square as Ukraine and Russia to hold talks in Turkey | AFP

Traffic on Kyiv's Independence square (Maidan) as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky plans to meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. A Russian delegation has landed in Istanbul for the first direct peace talks with Ukraine in more than three years, Russian state media reports, but without President Vladimir Putin as many world leaders had urged.