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Ukrain­ian Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy said Tues­day that he will be wait­ing for Russ­ian coun­ter­part Vladimir Putin in the Turk­ish cap­i­tal this week to con­duct face-to-face talks about the more than three-year war amid heavy pres­sure from the U.S. and Eu­ro­pean lead­ers to reach a set­tle­ment.

Putin hasn’t yet said whether he will be at the talks, which U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has urged the two sides to at­tend as part of Wash­ing­ton’s ef­forts to stop the fight­ing.

Ze­len­skyy told re­porters in Kyiv that he will be in Ankara on Thurs­day to con­duct the ne­go­ti­a­tions. He will meet with Turk­ish Pres­i­dent Re­cep Tayyip Er­do­gan and the two will wait for Putin to ar­rive, he said.