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MOSCOW: Russia on Thursday said it was still waiting for Ukraine to say whether it would attend peace talks in Istanbul on Monday, after Kyiv demanded Moscow send its peace terms before agreeing to the meeting.

Diplomatic efforts to end the three-year conflict have gained pace in recent months, but Moscow has shown no signs of easing its bombardment of Ukraine while rebuffing calls for an immediate ceasefire.

Moscow has offered to hold a second round of direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on June 2, where it wants to present a so-called 鈥渕emorandum鈥� outlining its conditions for a long-term peace settlement.

But Ukraine said the meeting would not yield results unless it saw a copy of the memorandum in advance, a proposal that the Kremlin dismissed.

鈥淎s far as I know, no response has been received yet... we need to wait for a response from the Ukrainian side,鈥� Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, calling Kyiv鈥檚 demand that Russia provide peace conditions up front as 鈥渘on-constructive.鈥�

Ukraine said it had already submitted its peace terms to Russia and demanded Moscow do the same.

Turkiye鈥檚 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Russia and Ukraine not to 鈥渟hut the door鈥� on dialogue ahead of the anticipated meeting in Istanbul.

The warring sides previously met in Istanbul on May 16, their first direct talks in over three years.

Those talks failed to yield a breakthrough, but the two sides did agree to trade 1,000 prisoners each 鈥� their biggest POW swap since the beginning of the conflict.

Erdogan鈥檚 foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, who met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday, was expected to travel to Kyiv on Thursday to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

US President Donald Trump, who has been pushing for a peace deal, has become increasingly frustrated with Moscow鈥檚 apparent stalling and warned Wednesday he would determine within 鈥渁bout two weeks鈥� whether Putin was serious about ending the fighting.

Moscow鈥檚 offensive, launched in February 2022, has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and the destruction of large parts of eastern and southern Ukraine.

Ukraine on Thursday criticized Russia鈥檚 refusal to provide the memorandum.

鈥淭he Russians鈥� fear of sending their memorandum to Ukraine suggests that it is likely filled with unrealistic ultimatums,鈥� foreign ministry spokesman Georgiy Tykhy said.

The Kremlin has been grinding forward on the battlefield for over a year while pushing its demands for peace, which include Ukraine abandoning its NATO ambitions and ceding territory it already controls.

Local authorities in Ukraine said Thursday that Russia had fired 90 drones overnight, killing at
least five people across the country.

In southern Ukraine, a drone strike killed two civilians in the Kherson region, while a ballistic missile attack claimed the life of a farm worker in the Mykolaiv region.

In the eastern Donetsk region, shelling killed one civilian, according to a 24-hour tally from the National Police.

A 68-year-old man was killed by a drone strike on his home in the northeastern Sumy region, which borders Russia.

In his comments on Wednesday, Trump told reporters he was 鈥渧ery disappointed鈥� at Russia鈥檚 deadly bombardment during the negotiating process, but rebuffed calls to impose more sanctions on Moscow.

Kyiv has accused Russia of deliberately stalling the peace process to pursue its offensive.

Zelensky said Russia was 鈥渁massing鈥� more than 50,000 troops on the front line around Sumy, where Moscow鈥檚 army has captured a number of settlements as it seeks to establish what Putin has called a 鈥渂uffer zone鈥� inside Ukrainian territory.

On Thursday, the Russian army said it captured three villages in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions and had repelled 48 Ukrainian drones, including three over the Moscow region.

A retired Russian commander who led air strikes on the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol died in a blast early Thursday in Stavropol in southern Russia, authorities said, adding that they did not rule out Ukrainian involvement.