The US is sharing its low expectations of current Ukraine peace talks in Turkey, with both sides backing out of sending their leaders. 

Russia's sending low-level official Vladimir Medinsky, Ukraine's decided to send its defence minister instead. 

Donald Trump was preparing to go, only if Russian President Vladimir Putin was there. 

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking Trump is now suggesting he expected this all along, saying he wasn’t planning on going in the first place.  

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