The Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers held face-to-face talks in southern Turkey on March 10 in the first high-level contact between Kyiv and Moscow since Russia invaded its neighbor two weeks ago.
Ukraine and Russia made no pogress towards agreeing a ceasefire after the Russian invasion at tense talks in Turkey, the Ukrainian foreign minister said following the meeting.
"We also talked on the ceasefire but no progress was accomplished on that," Dmytro Kuleba told reporters after his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, describing the meeting as "difficult" and accusing his counterpart of bringing "traditional narratives" to the table.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has pushed for Turkey to play a mediation role, has expressed hope the talks can avert tragedy and even help agree a ceasefire.
But analysts fear there are only the lowest chances of a breakthrough at the meeting in Antalya between Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba.
Senior Ukrainian officials, including the defence minister, have held a sequence of meetings with a Russian delegation in Belarus largely devoted to humanitarian issues, but Moscow has not sent any ministers to the talks.
