Zelenskyy reports solid progress in U.S.-led peace talks, acknowledging both sides have unmet demands amid ongoing conflict.

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…

“The basic block of all the documents is ready,” says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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 looks quite solid at this stage,” the Ukrainian leader said of recent talks with U.S. officials who are trying to steer the neighboring countries toward compromises. “There are some things we are probably not ready for, and I’m sure there are things the Russians are not ready for either,” Zelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv.

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.

KYIV, Dec 23 - Russia launched an early morning air attack on Kyiv on Tuesday, Ukrainian military said, just days after a U.S.-led round of peace talks in Miami ended on Sunday. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said talks to end the war was a "working progress". 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.