Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at stalled Russia-Ukraine peace talks, the European Union ’s potential expansion, and U.S. sanctions on Cuba . ‘I Am Proposing a Meeting’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky published an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday offering to hold in-person negotiations on ending the war between their two countries. With U.S. negotiators having so far failed to secure a lasting cease-fire in the war, FP’s Sam Skove reported