Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed direct talks with Kyiv after Ukraine, European leaders and President Donald Trump earlier agreed on an unconditional 30-day ceasefire.Putin proposed that the talks be “without preconditions” in Istanbul on May 15.

Using the Kremlin’s interpreter was “a very bad idea” that put Witkoff “at a real disadvantage,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, told NBC News.