What happens now is unclear, Trump admits after Moscow talks fail to produce results
The path ahead for Ukraine peace talks is unclear, Donald Trump said on Wednesday, after what he called “reasonably good” talks between Putin and US envoys.
Trump, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, shared that his delegation to Russia reported back that Putin appeared to want to make a deal, while sticking points remain.
What happens now is unclear, Trump said.
“What comes out of that meeting I can’t tell you because it does take two to tango,” Trump said, without elaborating. He added: “We have something pretty well worked out (with Ukraine)”.
A White House official said Witkoff and Kushner would meet with Ukrainian officials in Miami on Thursday.
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Putin accepted some US proposals aimed at ending the war in Ukraine and was prepared to keep working to find a compromise. It denied having rejected the US proposals to end the war.
James Reynolds4 December 2025 09:27
Putin says Russia will take all of Ukraine’s Donbas region ‘militarily or otherwise’
President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Thursday that Russia would take full control of Ukraine’s Donbas region by force unless Ukrainian forces withdraw.
“Either we liberate these territories by force of arms, or Ukrainian troops leave these territories,” Putin told India Today ahead of a visit to New Delhi, according to a clip shown on Russian state television.
Ukraine says it does not want to gift Russia its own territory that Moscow has failed to win on the battlefield.
Daniel Keane4 December 2025 09:05
Putin says meeting with Witkoff was ‘useful’ but ‘difficult’
Vladimir Putin has said that talks on Ukraine with Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner were “very useful” but failed to yield a breakthrough.
Speaking to India Today, Putin said: “I think it is too early to say, but this meeting was necessary.”
He went on: “We had to go over every point, which is why it took so on… So it was a necessary conversation, a very concrete one… Somewhere we said, yes, we can discuss this, but we can’t agree on that. That’s precisely the tone of the conversation.”
Daniel Keane4 December 2025 08:46
Watch: King Charles warns of ‘threat of Russian aggression’ in state banquet speechKing Charles warns of ‘threat of Russian aggression’ in state banquet speech
Daniel Keane4 December 2025 08:37
Pictured: Residents evacuated from apartment hit by drone strike in Odesa
(via REUTERS)
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Daniel Keane4 December 2025 08:20
Medvedev says EU plan to seize Russian assets is ‘act of war’
A senior Russian official has said that the European Union’s plan to seize frozen Russian assets may be considered as justification for war.
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said: “If the crazy European Union does, after all, try to steal Russian assets frozen in Belgium under the guise of a so-called ˜reparations loan, Russia may well view this move as tantamount to a casus belli with all the relevant implications for Brussels and individual EU countries.”
Daniel Keane4 December 2025 08:20
In pictures: Devastation in the aftermath of a Russian strike in Sloviansk
Rescuers work at the site of apartment buildings hit by a Russian air strike (REUTERS)
Russia continued strikes overnight (REUTERS)
Buildings damaged in Russian strikes on 3 December (REUTERS)
James Reynolds4 December 2025 08:00
50,000 people left without power following Russian strikes
Russia attacked a Ukrainian energy facility in the southern Odesa region overnight, leaving 51,800 households without power.
Energy workers are working to restore the electricity as soon as possible, energy company DTEK said in a statement on Telegram.
James Reynolds4 December 2025 07:28
Drone video shows devastated Ukrainian town nearly encircled by Russian forces
New drone footage shows a devastated Ukrainian town nearly encircled by Russian forces near the city that Moscow this week claimed to now control.
Some destruction is so fresh that smoke was still rising in the footage shot in the past few days.
“They are trying to simply erase the (town) from the face of the earth,” said Oleksii Hodzenko, press officer of the drone battalion of the 38th Marine Brigade, whose soldiers were still fighting inside Myrnohrad Wednesday.
Arpan Rai4 December 2025 07:15
Putin accused of ‘wasting the world’s time’ after Trump’s peace plan stalls
Senior Ukrainian and European officials have accused Russia of not pursuing “any kind of peace” and wasting the world’s time.
Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper said the Russian president Vladimir Putin “should end the bluster and the bloodshed and be ready to come to the table and to support a just and lasting peace”.
Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha called on the Russian leader to “stop wasting the world’s time”.
“Russia must end the bloodshed it has started. If this doesn’t happen and Putin just spits into the world’s face once again, there must be consequences. Russia must stop wasting the world’s time, which must be the time for peace,” he said.
Estonian foreign minister Margus Tsahkna said Putin “has not changed course”, adding: “It’s pretty obvious that he doesn’t want to have any kind of peace.”
(Sputnik)
Arpan Rai4 December 2025 07:00