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.

Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, triggering Europes largest conflict since World War II and prompting sweeping Western sanctions on Moscow, alongside extensive military and financial support for Kyiv.

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

It was not clear how far the United States would go in providing such security guarantees to Ukraine. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

US President Donald Trump said Monday that a deal to end Russia's war in Ukraine was closer than ever, after he spoke to Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky and a host of European leaders.

US and Ukrainian negotiators will again meet for high-stakes peace talks -- this time in Berlin -- as disagreements persist over territorial control and security guarantees and as Russia intensifies attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure sites.