Pressure is on Putin

RUSSIA must show “without delay” that it is willing to broker peace in Ukraine, Kyiv’s leading European allies have said, after David Lammy insisted President Vladimir Putin must “get serious” about negotiations.

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The UK's Foreign Secretary hosted his counterparts from France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland and the European Union yesterday. They discussed the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on his Russian counterpart to meet him face-to-face on Thursday in Turkey, for talks aimed at ending the war.

European leaders suggested that such talks must be accompanied by a truce, but Russia bombarded Ukraine with more than 100 drones overnight on Sunday, and has said there can be no preconditions for talks.