Volodymyr Zelensky says he is “waiting” to see who from Russia will attend the Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Istanbul before deciding “which steps Ukraine will take. A US official said Donald Trump would no longer join the talks,

That put the attendance of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky up in the air, given he had hinged his presence at the talks on whether Putin would also be there. Mr Zelensky said in a social media post on Thursday morning that he was “waiting to see who will come from Russia, and then I will decide which steps Ukraine should take”.