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The first di­rect peace talks be­tween Rus­sia and Ukraine since the ear­ly weeks of Moscow’s 2022 in­va­sion end­ed Fri­day af­ter less than two hours, ac­cord­ing to the Turk­ish For­eign Min­istry and a se­nior Ukrain­ian of­fi­cial.

Kyiv ac­cused the Krem­lin of in­tro­duc­ing new “un­ac­cept­able de­mands” to with­draw Ukrain­ian forces from huge swaths of ter­ri­to­ry, ac­cord­ing to the of­fi­cial, who spoke to The As­so­ci­at­ed Press on con­di­tion of anonymi­ty be­cause he was not au­tho­rized to make of­fi­cial state­ments.

The de­mands had not been pre­vi­ous­ly dis­cussed, the of­fi­cial said.