Russia's envoy is in Florida to continue talks to end the war but is unlikely to meet European negotiators. Meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelenskyy ruled out holding election in Russia-occupied parts of Ukraine. Follow DW.

MIAMI: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday (Dec 20) that Washington had proposed the first face-to-face negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in six months, as diplomats converged on

Ukrainian leader says “not sure something new would come” from a trilateral meeting in Florida.

The Kremlin’s senior negotiator in talks on ending the war in Ukraine, Kirill Dmitriev, said he was on his way to Florida for fresh meetings with US counterparts on December 20 – hours after a Russian strike on Ukraine’s Odesa region killed eight people and injured 27.

At his annual press conference on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the ball was in Kyiv and its allies' court to end the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin chief also said he was certain that…