President Donald Trump announced he will speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the phone Monday to discuss the war in Ukraine. After neither Trump nor Putin went to Turkey earlier this week for peace talks to end the war between Russia and Ukraine,

Trump said he will speak to the Russian president, who recently skipped peace talks with Ukraine, on Monday morning.

ISTANBUL − Russia's Vladimir Putin spurned a challenge to meet face-to-face with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Turkey, instead sending a second-tier delegation to planned peace talks, while Ukraine's president said his defence minister would head up Kyiv's team.