Ukraine said Russia was seeing the situation “much more adequately” than before A member of the Russian negotiating team, Leonid Slutsky, has said he believes the “significant progress” he has observed in talks between Moscow and Kiev might soon lead the two sides in the conflict to sign an agreement.

Ankara is doing its best to stage face-to-face talks between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders, the country’s FM said Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to the idea of holding talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said.

Wealthy Russians have stepped up their efforts to move their funds from Europe to Dubai to evade Western sanctions placed on them over the war in Ukraine, Reuters has reported, citing financial and legal sources in the Gulf state.