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Kyiv, Ukraine — <\/span>Ukraine is pushing for face-to-face talks between President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kiev’s top diplomat said, with a potential summit presented as a way to bring new momentum to US-led efforts. Russia’s invasion for more than four years<\/a> His neighbor’s.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a Ukrainian drone strike inside Russia hit a residential building, killing a woman and a child, Russian officials said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiha said Kiev has asked Turkey to help facilitate top-level talks and has reached out to other capitals as potential hosts, adding that Ukraine would consider any venue outside Russia and Belarus.<\/p>\n “We… are advocating for a (summit) meeting now to bring new momentum to diplomacy,” Sibiha told reporters on Tuesday. His comments were barred until Wednesday.<\/p>\n US mediated talks<\/a> There has been little or no progress in talks between delegations from Moscow and Kiev over the past year important issues<\/a>As if Moscow is trying to control, but not completely control, the future of four Ukrainian regions. Washington’s attention has now been drawn to Iran war<\/a>The conversation is on ice.<\/p>\n Zelensky has accepted the unconditional ceasefire demanded by US President Donald Trump but refused by Putin. Analysts say Putin believes time is on his side, Western military and financial aid will end and Ukrainian resistance will eventually collapse.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, fierce fighting continues along a nearly 1,250-kilometre (800-mile) front line in Ukraine’s eastern and southern regions. Western officials and analysts claim that Russia is suffering thousands of battlefield casualties every month, which is being compared to the genocide of the First World War.<\/p>\n Independent verification of the number of casualties on the battlefield and which side has the upper hand is not possible.<\/p>\n