India, April 22 -- Ukraine is aggressively pushing for a face-to-face summit between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin, viewing their direct encounter as the only way to break a diplomatic deadlock that has paralysed US-led peace efforts in the four-year-long hostilities. 

Kyiv has reached out to the NATO member Turkiye to help facilitate top-level talks, sources told The Associated Press. It has also approached other capitals as potential hosts. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said that Kyiv has reached out to Turkiye as a primary facilitator and would consider any venue outside Russia and its steadfast ally, Belarus, for a meeting between Putin and Zelensky.

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