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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko hold bilateral talks in Minsk in a room full of delegates, which included the defence ministers of both nations. IMAGES
Members of the Ukrainian delegation are welcomed by Turkish representatives at the Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul for the new round of talks with Russia. The negotiators are meeting for their first face-to-face talks in weeks. The talks come after President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv negotiators are considering a Russian request for Ukrainian neutrality. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that Russia is not making serious efforts in negotiations with Ukraine to end the three-week war. "I have not seen any meaningful efforts by Russia to bring this war that it is perpetrating to a conclusion through diplomacy," he tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Images show the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Rome where US/China talks on Ukraine are being held as Russia and Ukraine launch a simultaneous fresh round of talks in an effort to end Moscow's devastating war, despite deadly air strikes in the capital Kyiv and an eastern pro-Moscow separatist region. IMAGES
Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says that him and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov "did not make progress" on the issue of a ceasefire, as the two begin talks in Turkey in the first such high-level contact since Moscow invaded its neighbour. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).