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"There is no point in prolonging the killings. And I will wait for Putin on Thursday in Turkey," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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"We cannot allow NATO's military infrastructure to get that close to our borders," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
This week, the world watched in anticipation for Russia’s Victory Day parade after President Volodymyr Zelensky commented that he could not guarantee the safety of those attending. Meanwhile, the European Union moves one step forward to banning Russian gas from the European continent. It is also revealed this week that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fallen out of step with the White House.
"(Russian) President (Vladimir) Putin... doesn't want to have a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine, but rather wants to meet on Thursday, in Turkey, to negotiate a possible end to the bloodbath. Ukraine should agree to this, immediately," U.S. President Donald Trump said.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to to Antalya, Turkey, for a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting from May 14–16, where he is expected to address the war in Ukraine and push for stronger Allied defense commitments.
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.
The 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."
A 9-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy were returned to their family on the Ukrainian-controlled territory, ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets reported on March 23.
According to Lubinets, a request to return the children from the Russian-occupied territories came from a woman who was previously in Russian captivity.
Lubinets called on relatives and guardians whose children are now in Russia or on the occupied territory to contact the Commissioner's Office to request the return.
More than 16,000 Ukrainian children are confirmed to have been deported by Russia since the start of the full-scale invasion, according to the government website Children of War.
On the same day, the ombudsman said on national television that the real number of Ukrainian children forcibly taken by Russian troops could be "tens, or even hundreds of thousands."
Lubinets said, cited by Ukrinform news outlet, that the international law considered forced deportation only when Ukrainian children were transported across the Ukrainian-Russian border.
"Even if they were forcibly taken to (Russian-occupied) Crimea, the International Criminal Court would not interpret it as deportation because Crimea is Ukraine, but as soon as they cross the border, due to the actions of the Russian military or the occupying authorities, the deportation process begins," the Ukrainian ombudsman explained.
According to Lubinets, it is easier to negotiate with Russia regarding children in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine than those taken to Russia.
"They understand that every returned child is an additional witness to the war crime of forced deportation of Ukrainian children. This process is slow and difficult," he added.
Ukraine has so far managed to return over 300 Ukrainian children forcibly relocated by Russia, according to Lubinets, and the process is ongoing.
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