Kazakh president urges Putin to freeze Ukraine war

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin to consider freezing the war in Ukraine and returning to a revamped version of the 2022 Istanbul talks, in a rare public nudge toward peace from one of Moscow’s closest partners. Tokayev, speaking at a meeting with Putin in the Siberian city of Omsk on Saturday, said he was receiving numerous signals from Europe and the ...