Details of a phone call President Vladimir Putin made detailing his demands for peace with Ukraine have been reported.
The Russian President rang the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Thursday afternoon and explained what his conditions were for a peace deal with Ukraine.
Following the call, the BBC spoke to Mr Erdogan's leading adviser and spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin who was part of a small number of officials listening in on the call.
One of the chief demands is that Ukraine should be neutral and not apply to join NATO, which Ukrainian President has already conceded to, the report says.
There are also demands for Ukraine to undergo a disarmament process to make sure there's no threat to Russia and protection for Russian as a language in Ukraine, reports said.
Another demand was said to be about 'de-Nazification' which is deeply offensive to Zelensky, who is Jewish himself.
Other discussions involved the status of Donbas in eastern Ukraine, though no specific details were given about this.
Putin reportedly said that some of the negotiations would need to be face to face with Zelensky, which the latter is said to be prepared for.
A peace deal could take a long time to reach and it will be a long time until Ukraine is able to rebuild the cities Russia has destroyed.
Russia expanded its missile strikes to Lviv in the west of Ukraine as British intelligence suggested Vladimir Putin's invasion had made only "minimal progress" this week.
Armed forces minister James Heappey said on Friday the early-morning attack on the city that has swelled with people sheltering from elsewhere in Ukraine showed Russia was broadening its strikes.
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said several missiles hit a facility for repairing military planes near the city's international airport and also damaged a bus repair site.
Shelling around the capital of Kyiv also continued as the number of refugees estimated to have fled exceeded 3.4 million.
