Since last sitting down with Ukraine to talk peace, Russia has launched four of its five largest drone attacks against the country, killed more than 340 of its civilians and continued to peddle its false narrative about the unprovoked war it has been waging for more than a decade.

Ukraine will propose a ceasefire during talks with Russia in Istanbul on June 2. The proposal calls for a complete and unconditional ceasefire, says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian president said he held a lengthy meeting today with Defense Minister Rustem Umerov,

Russian and Ukrainian officials are due to sit down on Monday in the Turkish city of Istanbul for their second round of direct peace talks since 2022, but the two sides are still far apart on how to end the war and the fighting is stepping up.