KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday (Dec 22) that negotiations with the United States and European partners aimed at ending the nearly four-year war wit

Initial drafts of U.S. proposals for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia meet many of Kyiv's demands, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday, although he suggested that neither side in the almost four-year war is likely to get everything it wants in talks on reaching a settlement. “Overall, it…

A senior Kremlin official played down the chances of swift progress on Ukraine peace talks as separate meetings in Florida between US and Russian envoys and US and Ukrainian officials wrapped up on December 21.

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.

Dec 23 - Talks between Russia and the United States in Miami on ways to resolve the conflict in Ukraine should not be seen as a breakthrough, the Izvestia news outlet cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying in remarks published on Tuesday. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Ukrainian President Zelensky states negotiations with the US and Europe are "very close to a real result" for ending the nearly four-year war with Russia. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Kremlin maintained its a hard line on a peace deal, rejecting undisclosed changes proposed by Kyiv and its European allies, as separate US-Russia and US-Ukraine talks wrapped up in Florida.