Preliminary findings suggest that one of the men killed the other before taking his own life.
Western leaders dismissed the Kremlin's proposal for talks in Istanbul on May 15 as insufficient.
The Kremlin said the leaders held a detailed discussion about the Russian initiative and Erdogan expressed full support, reiterating Turkey’s readiness to provide a venue and assist in organizing the negotiations.
Erdogan told Macron that international cooperation is critical for initiating peace negotiations and the "sensitive implementation" of Ukraine’s recovery and reconstruction processes, the Turkish Presidency reported.
Pope said he was praying to God to grant the world the "miracle of peace."
Ushakov’s comments follow Russian President Vladimir Putin's May 11 invitation for direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul starting May 15.
The assault began around 2 a.m. on May 11, with Russian forces deploying 108 Shahed-type attack drones and decoy UAVs from multiple directions, Ukraine’s Air Force said.
Zelensky called a ceasefire the essential first step toward ending the war.
The number includes 1,310 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
"Think of the hundreds of thousands of lives that will be saved as this never ending 'bloodbath' hopefully comes to an end... I will continue to work with both sides to make sure that it happens."
"An unconditional ceasefire is not preceded by negotiations," French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters on May 11.
U.S. State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce called for "concrete proposals from both sides" in order for Washington to "move forward" in peace negotiations.
"If they speak to each other in Russian, he doesn't know what they are saying," one Western official told NBC News. Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, called Witkoff's approach "a very bad idea."
Ukraine's General Staff: Russia prepares to redeploy units from Belarus to Ukraine
Russian command is preparing to redeploy separate units from Belarus to the occupied territories of Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian General Staff report on Nov. 27.
Up to 12,000 mobilized Russian recruits are stationed in Belarus, the Ukrainian military’s National Resistance Center reported on Nov. 25.
Ukraine’s General Staff said that Russian forces expect to reinforce the troops operating in the occupied territories of Ukraine after the units acquire combat capabilities, while Belarusian special operations force units are reinforcing the border with Ukraine.
Russian forces are redeploying military personnel and equipment to replenish the units that suffered losses, according to the report.
Russia has lost 87,310 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, Ukraine’s General Staff reported on Nov. 27.
In the same report, the General Staff said that Russian forces struck four civilian sites in Rozumivka village in Zaporizhzhia Oblast and in the Kryvyi Rih suburb of Musiivka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The threat of Russian missile attacks on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure remains, the General Staff said.
Using mortars and artillery, Russian forces shelled settlements in Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Luhansk, and Donetsk oblasts.
Russian forces focused its main offensive near Bakhmut and Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast, shelling the area with mortars and multiple rocket launchers, the General Staff reported.
Hospitals in Russian-occupied Schastia in the Luhansk region are overloaded due to the large number of wounded Russian troops, who are forced to carry out a medical evacuation of wounded servicemen to occupied Luhansk, the report said.
The General Staff confirmed the reports of a Nov. 25 attack on a Russian military site in occupied Svatove in Luhansk Oblast, where around 70 Russian servicemen were located. The number of casualties is unknown.
Ukraine’s rocket forces and artillery hit three areas of Russian troops, weapons, and military equipment sites, the military said.

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