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Zelensky slams ‘unserious’ Putin over peace talk snub, calls for Russian sanctions

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s snub of Thursday’s peace talks in Turkey shows how “unserious” the Kremlin is about ending its war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters in Ankara. Instead of turning up himself, Putin sent his aide Vladimir Medinsky — his former culture minister who previously tried to negotiate Kyiv’s surrender in the early…