Last week, Alexey Polishchuk, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Second CIS Department, told Sputnik that Moscow remains open to resuming dialogue with Ukraine in Istanbul.
"Turkiye is hosting the negotiations. If there are requests, we are ready, but so far there are no such signals," the source said.
Turkiye continues contacts with both Russia and Ukraine as part of its mediation efforts, and a window of opportunity for negotiations remains open, a Turkish diplomatic source previously told Sputnik.