Dmitry Peskov asserts that negotiations regarding the potential end of the war in Ukraine "are quite difficult." The Kremlin thus contradicts Donald Trump's assurances. "We’ll see what happens — but I think it’s going well,

The Kremlin said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump had no plans to talk after a visit to Washington by Putin's investment envoy as wider negotiations over a ceasefire in Ukraine appeared stalled.

The Kremlin on Thursday said that a meeting between the U.S., Ukraine and European countries in Paris was a chance for U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff to inform them of the current status of talks about the search for a peace settlement in Ukraine.