Washington has offered new security guarantees for Ukraine but gaps still remain over territory.

Officials said the offer of security guarantees would not be on the table “forever”.

Calling the issue of territorial concessions “painful”, Zelensky told reporters later: “We still have different positions.” Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

U.S. negotiators have offered to provide NATO-style security guarantees for Kyiv as U.S. and European negotiators reported progress in talks on Monday to end the war with Russia, but a deal on territorial concessions remained elusive. Envoys sent by U.S. President Donald Trump made the ‌unprecedented offer at talks with…

US and Ukrainian officials said they made substantial progress in two days of talks aimed to bring an end to Russia's invasion closer, with Washington reportedly offering Kyiv security guarantees modeled on NATO’s Article 5 mutual defense pledge.

The U.S. has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia's nearly four-year war, and more talks are likely this weekend, U.S. officials said Monday following the latest discussions with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berlin. The officials said talks with President Donald Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, led to narrowing differences on security guarantees that Kyiv said must be provided, as well as on Moscow’s demand that Ukraine concede land in the Donbas region in the country’s east.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says peace proposals for U.S. officials to present to Russia could be finalized within days.

US President Donald Trump says a Ukraine-Russia peace deal is “closer than ever” following intensive Berlin talks with European leaders and President Zelenskyy, as discussions focus on security guarantees, territorial control and ending the four-year conflict.