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Sergei Lavrov leaves in a car after landing at Esenboga airport in Ankara. The Russian Foreign Minister is in Turkey for a two-day visit for talks on unblocking grain exports from Ukraine, which have been stalled by Moscow's offensive. IMAGES
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov welcomes United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for peace talks over Moscow's ongoing "special military operation" in Ukraine. 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
Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov holds talks with the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer, a month after Moscow launched its military operation in Ukraine. 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
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