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In force, and the ukrainians are asking for a full cease-fire. reduction does not mean full cease-fire. and so i am cautiously mystic that something will come out of here. but let's hope so. >> should we be, rick stangl, cautiously optimistic of something actually coming out of these talks. how likely is it, do we think, that vladimir putin is actually involved and/or having a direct line to people on the ground, involved in these talks in istanbul? >> well, to your first question, i'm always cautiously optimistic. that's -- optimism about a person's nature, not the reality. but speaking of th...

Outlines of the agreement about ukrainian neutrality, about the southeast region, the donbas region, about recognition of crimea, and even that last thing that they threw in the negotiations of making russian an official language of ukraine again, he's going to have to sign off on all of those things if there is going to be an agreement. >> if the two of you can be cautiously optimistic, then, i too, will get on that boat and be cautiously optimistic as we look ahead as theet talks. rick stangl, thank you both. coming up this afternoon, president biden will sign into law the emmett till anti...

Hey, everybody. good morning. it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm yasmin vassoughian in for jose diaz-balart. we're going to begin with the very latest on the war in ukraine. at this hour, the president holding a call with leaders from france, germany, italy, and the uk, to discuss the russian invasion of ukraine. all of this after russia's defense minister announcing that they have decided to drastically reduce its military activity near kyiv and chernihiv. that announcement coming as russia and ukrainian officials meet in istanbul for face-to-face talks aimed at ending the five-...

Negotiations happening in istanbul right now? >> reporter: yasmin, the negotiations took place in the building behind me here, right about four hours, 10:00 until 2:00 in the afternoon. i'm just going to look down to take you through the detail, because we are getting a lot of news from different sides about results of those negotiations. i guess the headline is that there does appear to have been some progress. turkey saying perhaps the most progress that there have been in talks so far. so as you mentioned at the top there, the russian deputy defense minister saying that russia will now dras...

So talking to civilians, talking to military here, talking to analysts who are obviously watching very closely, over the last month that i have been reporting from here, whether it was negotiations over a humanitarian corridor on land or a negotiation over a humanitarian corridors on the sea, on the black sea, or president putin saying that he's going to now focus his oefr eff and efforts on the east, instead of lviv, which is just miles from the polish border, a nato country, of course. the fact that there's been so much headway and talks about the analysts i'm talking to in odesa, they think...