Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kremlin demands ‘radical changes’ to peace plans despite US optimism
Russia has signalled that “radical changes” are needed to the US-Ukraine peace plan despite a US envoy saying that the end to the war is “really really close”.
President Vladimir Putin’s top foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov was quoted by Russia media on Sunday saying that the United States would have to “make serious, I would say, radical changes to their papers” on Ukraine. He did not clarify what changes Moscow wanted Washington to make.
However US special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg told a defence forum that a deal to end the Ukraine war was “really close” and depending on resolving two issues. These are the future of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and the future of the Donbas region.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said last night that the “next steps” for talks with the United States about post-war Ukraine have been agreed.
In a post to social media platform X, Mr Zelensky said that he had had a call with president Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Mr Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner to catch-up about the third day of talks.
