Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday, november 18, that he will travel to Turkiye this week in an attempt to jump-start negotiations on ending Russia’s invasion, which began nearly four years ago.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff will join Zelenskyy in Turkiye, a senior Turkish official told The Associated Press (AP), but the Kremlin said that Russia won’t be sending anyone.

Turkiye provided a setting for low-level talks between Ukraine and Russia earlier this year, though the only significant progress in Istanbul was on exchanging prisoners of war. US-led international peace efforts have brought no breakthrough, either.

Zelenskyy said that he would be in Turkiye on Wednesday (November 19), a day after visiting Spain, where he hoped for pledges of new support on Tuesday

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