With only a day to go, Russia has yet to confirm whether President Vladimir Putin will travel to Turkey on Thursday for peace talks with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Interfax news agency on Wednesday that the Russian delegation to the negotiations in Istanbul would be announced when Putin gives the order.

Putin is not going to Istanbul to meet Zelenskyy, so who will represent Russia? Vladimir Putin will not travel to Turkey and is instead sending the deputy foreign affairs and defence ministers, the head of his military intelligence,