Moscow, Ukraine and peace deal
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President Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff will travel next week to Moscow as momentum builds for a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.
The proposal — which calls for Ukraine to halve its military forces, relinquish land it already controls, agree to receive no weapons aid from the West and to deny outside military support on Ukrainian soil– caves to nearly all of Moscow’s demands and is a non-starter for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Donald Trump said Tuesday he is sending his envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week as the US president seeks to close out
Russian president tells Hungarian premier during talks in Moscow that he would be "very happy" for Budapest to host such a summit, thanks him for his willingness to assist.
The ‘peace process’ is barrelling out of Kyiv’s control, and that is a serious problem for a sclerotic Europe and democracy at large
According to leaks and draft texts seen by multiple outlets, the original US plan was built around a hard trade-off: Kyiv would accept major territorial concessions—effectively recognizing Russian control over Crimea,