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First Direct Talks - Russia and Ukraine
May 21 , 2025
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- Russian and Ukrainian negotiators met in Istanbul at their first direct peace talks in more than three years.
- Both countries agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war each.
- But Russia declined Ukraine’s call for an unconditional ceasefire.
- Russia primarily demanded to cede the territory and abandon Ukraine’s NATO membership ambitions and become a neutral country.
- Russia claims Crimea (2014), and Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia (since 2022).
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