The latest on Ukraine and Russia’s separate talks with the USpublished at 11:25 GMT<\/p>\n
11:25 GMT<\/p>\n
Both Ukrainian and Russian representatives have been speaking with US officials in recent days – here’s the latest on their discussions:<\/p>\n
Ukraine<\/b><\/p>\n
Earlier this week, Zelensky said that a Thursday call – with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner – yielded “new ideas in terms of formats, meetings, and… timing on how to bring a real peace closer”.<\/p>\n
There appears to have been some progress in talks between the two countries, with Ukraine’s president praising the “good ideas” put forward by Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Kushner.<\/p>\n
Zelensky said there is still “work to be done on sensitive issues”, but “together with the American team, we understand how to put all of this in place.”<\/p>\n
Russia<\/b><\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Kremlin has said it is studying a proposal brought back from the US by Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev after talks last weekend.<\/p>\n
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday: “We are examining this material, and depending on the decisions made by the head of state, we will continue our communication with the Americans.”<\/p>\n
Russia’s state-affiliated outlet Tass reported that the Kremlin is unwilling to disclose many details about the proposed plan, reporting that Peskov declined to comment further when asked by Russian media.<\/p>\n
It added that Peskov says the Kremlin continues “to believe that there should be a veil of secrecy here.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest on Ukraine and Russia’s separate talks with the USpublished at 11:25 GMT 11:25 GMT Both Ukrainian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-657768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115791456176703309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}