Factbox-An aide, a diplomat and a spy: Who is Putin sending to Turkey?

FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with members of the Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia) National Public Organisation and participants of the organisation's 20th Congress and Forum via video link at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia May 13, 2025. Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Who is Russian President Vladimir Putin sending to the peace talks with Ukraine that the Kremlin chief himself proposed?

Just over an hour before Moscow's midnight on May 14, the Kremlin published the names of those who would attend.