Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky reveals new peace deal as Trump envoys finish ‘productive’ talks with Putin
Four-hour talks were held between Vladimir Putin and senior Trump officials in the Kremlin on Tuesday evening, to discuss a new 20-point peace plan announced by Volodymyr Zelensky hours earlier.
“Productive”, was how talks were described by Moscow envoy Kirill Dmitriev, who was joined by the Russian president, Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov.
But Ushakov said the two sides are no closer to resolving the crisis in Ukraine, noting that they failed to reach a compromise on territorial disputes.
The chances of a comprehensive Russian agreement to Mr Zelensky’s new 20-point plan, agreed between the US and Ukraine in the past few days, was already understood to be very low.
What the plan involves is not clear, but the Ukrainian president 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.
“Some things still need to be worked out,” he told reporters on a visit to Dublin, adding that this marked “one of the most challenging and yet optimistic moments at the same time” for peace in Ukraine.
