Ukraine war live: deadly Russian attacks continue after Turkey peace talks end with no significant breakthrough
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Date: 2025-06-03T07:50:26.000Z
Title: Deadly Russian attacks continue after Turkey peace talks end with no significant breakthrough
Content: Welcome back to our live coverage of Russia's war on Ukraine.
Russian shelling killed at least five people on Monday in different frontline areas of eastern Ukraine, officials said. One death was in the city of Kramatorsk, where two others were injured; and two deaths were further south in the town of Illinivka where another three were injured.
In the Kharkiv region, further to the north, prosecutors said two women were killed in a village south of Kupiansk, which has come under heavy Russian attack for months.
The attacks came as a second round of peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv ended yesterday in Istanbul without a significant breakthrough – only a deal to swap more prisoners of war.
An agreement had been made to return the remains of killed service personnel, but this would take careful preparation, said Ukrainian negotiators. Russia proposed a ceasefire of two or three days in some areas of the frontline to allow the Russian army to collect the many bodies it has left lying on the battlefield.
Ukrainian officials said the Russians rejected Kyiv's call for an unconditional ceasefire of at least a month, instead handing over a proposal that would need to be studied by Kyiv. The Ukrainians suggested the talks should reconvene towards the end of June.
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