Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump envoys fail to secure peace deal after Putin tells Europe he’s ready for war
Talks between Vladimir Putin and two senior envoys for Donald Trump stretched late into Tuesday night but failed to reach a compromise on the terms of a peace deal for Ukraine.
Putin’s top foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said the five-hour summit brought the region “no closer to peace” – but also no further away.
Ushakov described the talks as constructive but said there was no agreement on the thorniest issue of territory. Russia wants to be handed the whole of the eastern Donbas region, something Kyiv has flatly refused.
Ahead of the talks involving Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner, Putin told an investment forum that a new 20-point peace plan agreed by Ukraine and the US was unacceptable to Moscow.
He accused Europe of wanting to sabotage the talks, adding that if Europe “wants to go to war and starts one, we are ready right now”.
What the 20-point plan involved is not clear, but the Ukrainian president has said that the 28-point roadmap proposed by the US last month – widely viewed in Europe as a capitulation for Ukraine – had been reworked into a new agreement.
