STORY: The Russian delegation has arrived on Sunday (June 1) evening in Istanbul, Turkey, ahead of a second round of peace talks with Ukraine and Russian TV network Russia-24 ran showed the head of the delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, leaving the plane on arrival.

After days of uncertainty over whether or not Ukraine would even attend, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Defence Minister Rustem Umerov would sit down with Russian officials at Monday's talks.

The first round of the talks more than a week ago yielded the biggest prisoner exchange of the war - but no sense of any consensus on how to halt the fighting.

According to U.S. Donald Trump envoy Keith Kellogg, the two sides will in Turkey present their respective documents outlining their ideas for peace terms, though it is clear that after three years of intense war, Moscow and Kyiv remain far apart.

Ukrainian negotiators in Istanbul will present to the Russian side a proposed roadmap for reaching a lasting peace settlement, according to a copy of the document seen by Reuters.

In June last year, Putin set out his opening terms for an immediate end to the war: Ukraine must drop its NATO ambitions and withdraw all of its troops from the entirety of the territory of four Ukrainian regions claimed and mostly controlled by Russia.

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VIDEO SHOWS: RUSSIAN DELEGATION, HEADED BY VLADIMIR MEDINSKY ARRIVING IN ISTANBUL FOR SECOND ROUND OF RUSSIA-UKRAINE TALKS

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SHOWS: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (JUNE 1, 2025) (RU-24 - No use Russia) (WITH RUSSIAN NARRATION)

1. RUSSIAN DELEGATION, HEADED BY VLADIMIR MEDINSKY WALKING OUT OF PLANE, SHAKING HANDS WITH WELCOMING DELEGATION, MEDINSKY STANDING NEXT TO JOURNALISTS