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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Saturday for stronger sanctions on Moscow after a Russian drone killed nine bus passengers in northeastern Ukraine just hours after the two countries held their first peace talks in three years of war.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meeting of Russian and Ukrainian officials in Turkey on Friday failed to broker a temporary ceasefire. It was the first direct dialogue between the two sides since the early months of the war<\/a> that Russia launched in February 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commenting on the drone strike in the Sumy region, Zelenskiy said on X: \u201cAll the deceased were civilians. And the Russians could not have failed to understand what kind of vehicle they were targeting. This was a deliberate killing of civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian police posted photos of a dark blue passenger van nearly destroyed, with the roof torn off and the windows blown out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPressure must be exerted on Russia to stop the killings. Without tougher sanctions, without stronger pressure, Russia will not seek real diplomacy,\u201d Zelenskiy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said Russia had sent to Istanbul<\/a> \u201ca weak and unprepared\u201d delegation without a meaningful mandate while real steps were needed to end the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are expecting strong sanctions against Russia from the United States, from Europe, and from all our partners. Diplomacy must start working,\u201d Zelenskiy stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. President Donald Trump, who has been pushing Moscow and Kyiv to hold peace talks, said before the two countries\u2019 negotiators met in Istanbul that \u201cnothing could happen\u201d until he had met directly with Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RUSSIAN \u2018OBFUSCATION\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to Reuters in Pakistan\u2019s capital Islamabad on Saturday, British foreign minister David Lammy accused Moscow of obfuscating after the Istanbul talks, which ended in less than two hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYet again we are seeing obfuscation on the Russian side and unwillingness to get serious about the enduring peace that is now required in Ukraine,\u201d Lammy told Reuters in Pakistan\u2019s capital Islamabad. \u201cOnce again Russia is not serious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt what point do we say to Putin enough is enough?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

French President Emmanuel Macron also said the talks in Istanbul had been fruitless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday, what do we have? Nothing. And so I tell you, faced with President Putin\u2019s cynicism, I am sure that President Trump, mindful of the credibility of the United States, will react,\u201d he said during a joint press conference with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelenskiy had challenged Putin earlier in the week to meet him in person, an offer the Russian leader ignored, but according to the Ukrainian delegation in Istanbul this possibility was discussed<\/a> during Friday\u2019s talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday that Russia considered<\/a> such a meeting was possible, but only as a result of work between the two sides to \u201cachieve certain results in the form of agreements\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt the same time, when signing documents that the delegations are to agree upon, the main and fundamental thing for us remains who exactly will sign these documents from the Ukrainian side,\u201d Peskov added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peskov did not elaborate on that remark. Putin has previously challenged Zelenskiy\u2019s legitimacy as president because his elected term of office expired last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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